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The long-run impacts of Mexican-American school desegregation

Antman, Francisca M.; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2022

We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in...

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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America

Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...

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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students

Holzer, Harry J. - 2019

In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …

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The long-run impacts of banning affirmative action in US higher education

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2024

This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the...

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College access and intergenerational mobility

Hendricks, Lutz; Koreshkova, Tatyana; Leukhina, Oksana - 2024

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Private tutoring and the question of equitable opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The nature of the private tutoring and its relation to the two national selection examinations in...

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Private tutoring and the question of equitable opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

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Private tutoring and the question of equitable opportunities in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

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Are you on the right track? : the effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary

Hermann, Zoltán - 2013

in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and … preferred by students within the tracks also provide better educational quality. Comparing the effects of tracks and differences …

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Who gained from the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales?

Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2016

This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of Education. This was to open secondary school education to children of all social backgrounds on equal...

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