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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

We present the first estimates of the returns to years of schooling before 1940 using a large sample of men and women, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of high school, and to a year of college, were...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece …

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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1996

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

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The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector : Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2011

, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey we assess … outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended …

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