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In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...
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technology for producing these skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works and that skills matter …
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Technical Education and Career System (CTECS) between 2006 and 2011. CTECS admission shifts male applicants towards higher …
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The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when … colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent … innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …
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estimated effect on education. Cross-country regression estimates corroborate the results from Tanzania, indicating a strong …
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The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education … American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly in America's heartland - a region we dub the 'education belt.' At … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …
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large numbers before the immigration restriction of the 1920s. More education enabled states to converge to a higher level …
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three most populous countries in the world: China, India, and the United States. This paper will focus on two human capital …
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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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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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