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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college degrees. Relative to 2015-19, the number of minutes worked from home on fall 2021 weekdays increased by over 90 minutes for college graduates; for...
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College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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The national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value. Education acquired abroad … is significantly less valued than education obtained domestically. This difference can fully explain the earnings … disadvantage of immigrants relative to comparable natives in Israel. Variation in the return to foreign schooling across origin …
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Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the US each year with 70,000 in detention on any given day, yet little is known whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts social and human capital formation in a way that increases the likelihood of later criminal behavior. This paper uses...
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We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … general equilibrium overlapping generations model with intergenerational linkages, a higher education choice as well as a … disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …
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of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of immigrants of German origin--so-called ethnic Germans--native Germans are …
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observed in the 1940 Census and the amount of return migration by Mexican immigrants during the 1930s. As such, this variation …
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...
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