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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...

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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing. The divide is between college graduates and others: those without four-year degrees have family patterns and trajectories very similar to those of high school...

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Allocating Household Time : When Does Efficiency Imply Specialization?

Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

' time inputs are perfect substitutes in household production. With no further assumptions (other than efficiency and the … households optimally adjusting spouses' stocks of market and household human capital, the specialization conclusion does not …, regardless of the levels at which they are fixed. Other assumptions about household technology also imply the specialization …

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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019

detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …

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Target setting and Allocative Inefficiency in Lending : Evidence from Two Chinese Banks

Cao, Yiming - 2018

We study the consequences of month-end lending incentives for Chinese bank managers. Using data from two banks, one state-owned and the other partially privatized, we show a clear increase in lending in the final days of each month, a result of both more loan issuance and higher value per loan....

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