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Manufacturing Equality : Title IX, Proportionality, and Natural Demand
Emam, Daniel - 2020
This paper poses the following question in the context of civil rights in education — is proportionality synonymous with parity? Since 1974 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has determined that in order for an educational institution to be in compliance with Title IX of the Educational...
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Do Financial Incentives Aimed at Decreasing Interhousehold Inequality Increase Intrahousehold Inequality?
Chuan, Amanda; List, John A.; Samek, Anya - 2021
socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We use a field …(s). An unintended consequence is that intrahousehold inequality increases and aggregate gains from the program are overstated …
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The Need for a Human Capital (Education-Labor) Sector
Reeves, Toinu - 2021
After accumulating USD 1.5 trillion, the US education sector educated 25 million Americans, or just over 15% of the workforce, that were ineligible for 1 million jobs for which it had to import labor.The Indian education sector spending 4-8 cents for every dollar the US sector spends per pupil,...
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Poverty - A Simple Approach to Eradicate it
Subramaniam, Viswanatha Sankara Rama - 2021
A Country is a predefined territory, where people live along with the nature and other living species (Botanical, Marine, Zoological etc.…). A Nation is the same as a Country, but with registered and identified group of people as the citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a...
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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions
Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016
This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502829
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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions
Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016
This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499992
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Recessions and Local Labor Market Hysteresis
Hershbein, Brad - 2020
This paper studies the effects of each U.S. recession since 1973 on local labor markets. We find that recession-induced declines in employment are permanent, suggesting that local areas experience permanent declines in labor demand relative to less-affected areas. Population also falls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834966
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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Shephard, Andrew - 2019
increase wage inequality. These changes are associated with a substantial upward shift in the distribution of job complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866274
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Investment Sophistication and Wealth Inequality
Azarmsa, Ehsan - 2020
inequality. I analyze a model of financial markets with investors heterogeneously informed about future returns. The … unconditional wealth share distribution features a thick right-tail populated by the best-informed investors. Wealth inequality … dynamics. Using data on US households' beliefs, the model can explain the recent dynamics in wealth inequality …
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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