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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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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …
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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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problematic for the estimation of the schooling coefficient even if individual unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity are taken … into account. Overall, the findings support the dynamic approach to the estimation of wage-schooling models recently …
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This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …
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This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435172