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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … returns to human capital. This suggests that other pre-market, productivity factors also improved across successive cohorts of …
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The Economics of Scale-Up
Davis, Jonathan M.V. - 2017
Most randomized controlled trials (RCT) of social programs test interventions at modest scale. While the hope is that promising programs will be scaled up, we have few successful examples of this scale-up process in practice. Ideally we would like to know which programs will work at large scale...
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Sibling Spillovers
Black, Sandra E. - 2017
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...
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