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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8736
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Deniz
Ozabaci
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling
In this paper, we employ a partially linear nonparametric additive regression estimator, with recent U.S. Current Population Survey data, to analyze returns to schooling. Similar to previous ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 227-251)
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C14, J24
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8734
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Joshua
Goodman
Takako
Nomi
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (1), 108-158)
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I20, I21, I24, J15, J24
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8733
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Sandra
E.
Black
Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016, 38 (2), 336-363)
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I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
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8732
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Rosario
Maria
Ballatore
Margherita
Fort
Andrea
Ichino
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 885–921)
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C36, I20, I24, J15
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8731
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Peter
Glick
David
E.
Sahn
Thomas
F.
Walker
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 792 - 813)
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I25, J22, D13, E24
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8730
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John
V.
Winters
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments ...
(revised version published as 'Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (3), 617 - 638)
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I25, J24, R23
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8729
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Dmytro
Hryshko
Chinhui
Juhn
Kristin
McCue
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Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?
We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 168-182)
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J1, J2, J3
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8728
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach
A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the most unique models he pioneered. Here I provide an overview of Becker's analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25)
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J12, J16
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8727
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Andriana
Bellou
Emanuela
Cardia
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified ...
(See IZA DP 18120 for an updated version of this paper.)
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J11, J12, J13, J21, J24, J26, J31
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8726
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabian
Kindermann
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Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is ...
(published in: M. Cervellati, U. Sunde (eds.), Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, MIT Press, 2017, )
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D13, J12, J13
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