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Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …

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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

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Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background

Black, Sandra E.; Sufi, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

While trends in college enrollment for blacks and whites have been the subject of study for a number of years, little attention has been paid to the variation in college enrollment by socioeconomic status (SES). It is well documented that, controlling for family background, blacks are more...

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Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States

Bound, John; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

to degree is localized among those who begin their postsecondary education at public colleges outside the most selective …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631118

Housing Valuations of School Performance

Black, Sandra E.; Machin, Stephen - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

countries, using a variety of identification strategies, and at different levels of the education system. …

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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Can You Leave High School Behind?

Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...

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Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources

Bound, John; Lovenheim, Michael; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

central contribution of this analysis is to show the importance of the supply-side of the higher education in explaining …

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Long-Term Trends in Schooling: The Rise and Decline (?) of Public Education in the United States

Black, Sandra E.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

In recent decades, there has been rising anxiety about the quality of the public education in the United States … terms of the public provision of education at all levels of schooling. This chapter documents this history, describing the … conditions in the early years of the country that were conducive to the rise of universal public education, in particular the …

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Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor

Bound, John; Kezdi, Gabor; Groen, Jeffrey; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

The main question addressed in this analysis is how the production of undergraduate and graduate education at the state …

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