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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black, Sandra E. - 2010

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …

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The effect of labor market information on community college students' major choice

Baker, Rachel; Bettinger, Eric; Jacob, Brian Aaron; … - In: Economics of education review 65 (2018), pp. 18-30

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Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance

Delaney, Judith - 2019

We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...

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More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility Over the Life Cycle

Delaney, Judith - 2017

Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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Earnings returns to the British education expansion

Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1153-1166

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When inputs are outputs : the case of graduate student instructors

Bettinger, Eric; Terry, Bridget; Taylor, Eric S. - In: Economics of education review 52 (2016), pp. 63-76

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Understanding gender differences in STEM : evidence from college applications✰

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - In: Economics of education review 72 (2019), pp. 219-238

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Gender differences in college applications : Aspiration and risk management

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - In: Economics of education review 80 (2021), pp. 1-16

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