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We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...
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/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …
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, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …
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no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …
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We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...
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more students at not-for-profits earn a BA, making them less likely to have only an Associate's degree. There is …
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ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine …
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We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job. Language acquisition is found to interact positively...
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In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading …
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We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability. Our model explains the difference between blacks and whites in the relations between education and AFQT and between wages...
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