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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence

Urquiola, Miguel S. - 2010

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

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The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995

Feenberg, Daniel; Poterba, James M. - 2022

This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies...

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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...

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Long-Term Trends in Private School Enrollments by Family Income

Murnane, Richard J. - 2017

We use data from multiple national surveys to describe trends in private elementary school enrollment by family income … from 1968-2013. We note several important trends. First, the private school enrollment rate of middle-income families … notable differences in private school enrollment trends by race/ethnicity, urbanicity, and region of the country. Although …

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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Chamon, Marcos - 2015

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U-shaped during the 2000s. We find that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms help explain both of these phenomena. Using a panel of Chinese households covering the period...

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Trends in Cumulative Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low-Income Families, 1997-2007

Koşar, Gizem - 2016

We present new calculations of cumulative marginal tax rates (MTRs) facing low income families participating in multiple welfare programs over the period 1997-2007, the period after 1996 welfare reform but before the program expansions of the Great Recession. Our calculations are for...

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel - 2018

Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...

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Family Income and the Intergenerational Transmission of Voting Behavior : Evidence from an Income Intervention

Akee, Randall - 2018

Despite clear evidence of an income gradient in political participation, research has not been able to isolate the effects of income on voting from other household characteristics. We investigate how exogenous unconditional cash transfers affected voting in US elections across two generations...

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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico

Parker, Susan - 2018

Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects on the youth they target. This paper estimates the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa on economic outcomes in early adulthood...

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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes

Dube, Arindrajit - 2018

There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom of the distribution. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.220 and -0.459 across alternative...

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