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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046176
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458126
We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …
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strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … investing in their children's test-taking abilities and improving their access to selective tertiary programs; and employers not …
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This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...
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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …
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education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …
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education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …
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