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: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …
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survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to …
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linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when …
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inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …
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This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of...
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This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...
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