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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2006

Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...

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The impact of parental education on earnings: new wine in an old bottle?

Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - 2009

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of factors suggest that parental education will affect the ability of an individual to translate labor market experience into earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Substitution between individual and cultural capital: Pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Timing is Everything when Fighting a Pandemic: COVID-19 Mortality in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Rivera … - 2020

lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …

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Can't Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty

Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; … - 2020

With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the … impact of lockdown. We also find a large increase of domestic violence when the relative position of the man worsens …

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Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020

When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …

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The causal effect of education on wages revisited

Dickson, Matt - 2009

variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age …

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