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High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School

Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2019

Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...

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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms

Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022

Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...

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Long-term effects of environmental policies on educational performance: Evidence from China

Khelifa, Siwar; He, Jie - 2023

This paper examines the overall long-term effects of the Two Control Zones policy, implemented by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution, on children's human capital development. Estimates show that exposure to this policy, during the year of birth, is associated, 15 years later, with an...

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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China

Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

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Trade and Innovation: Matched Worker-Firm-Level Evidence

Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2016

This paper examines the relationship between globalization and innovation. To do so, it draws from data that match the … model. While the literature on trade and innovation has emphasized the role of firms in driving onshore innovation, the main …

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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 2018

Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower...

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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Ahsan, Md. Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; … - 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...

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Couples are Made of Four: Intergenerational Transmission of Within-household Allocations

Garcia-Brazales, Javier - 2021

There is increasing evidence in favor of non-unitary models of the household. Moreover, gender norms and values have been shown to be transmitted across generations and to affect intra-household allocations. I lever a unique opportunity to observe each spouse’s contributions to income, market,...

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