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What Explains Growing Gender and Racial Education Gaps?

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2025

In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at similar rates, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. Gaps between race/ethnic groups have also widened. To understand these patterns, we...

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What Explains the Growing Gender Education Gap? The Effects of Parental Background, the Labor Market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment

Eckstein, Zvi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...

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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Gal-Or, Esther; Thorvaldur Gylfason; … - 2021

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2011

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Cities and growth : theory and evidence from France and Japan

Eaton, Jonathan - 1997

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Cities and Growth : Theory and Evidence from France and Japan

Eaton, Jonathan; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2021

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Cities and Growth : Theory and Evidence from France and Japan

Eaton, Jonathan - 1994

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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience : The Case of Female Immigrants

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2021

Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language and then choose between working or attending government provided training. Although theoretically training may have...

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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?

Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2021

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...

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Empirical Labor Search : A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants : Israel, 1990-2000

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Weiss, Yoram - 2021

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...

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From farmers to merchants : a human capital interpretation of Jewish economic history

Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2002

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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From Farmers to Merchants : A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2021

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