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education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that … collects these SES measures in a panel who were originally children and who are now well into their adult years. Since all …
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internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
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This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …
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A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school...
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