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Measuring Returns to Experience Using Supervisor Ratings of Observed Performance : The Case of Classroom Teachers

Bell, Courtney A.; James, Jessalynn K.; Taylor, Eric S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences...

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One Says Goodbye, Another Says Hello : Turnover and Compensation in the Early Care and Education Sector

Cunha, Flávio; Lee, Marcos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The quality of the early environment children experience influences their human capital development. We investigate …

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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between … programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student academic and labor market outcomes. We design and conduct a … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …

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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families

Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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Skill Heterogeneity and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics

Grigsby, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies aggregate labor market dynamics when workers have heterogeneous skills for tasks which are subject to non-uniform labor demand shocks. When workers have different skills, movements in aggregate wages partly reflect a reallocation of different workers across tasks and into...

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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....

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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification

Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....

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Skills and Human Capital in the Labor Market

Deming, David J.; Silliman, Mikko I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review the empirical evidence on returns to human capital from both a micro and macro perspective, as well as the evidence on...

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International College Students' Impact on the US Skilled Labor Supply

Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of these remain in the US after graduating and contribute to the high skilled labor supply in US labor markets. In this paper, we identify and estimate by how much one more...

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