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This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...
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education into higher earnings, non-HBCUs are doing a better job in helping graduates in science, technology, engineering, and …
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provision: domestic regulatory and security spending (adjudication) versus education. Output is a function of physical and … of other regions. Education spending increases social capital, whereas adjudication spending increases total factor … productivity. The solution in an OLG framework indicates that the welfare maximizing ratio of education spending is negatively …
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We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers influence neighborhood choices and child outcomes. We use two new panel data sets with tract-level detail for Los Angeles county to estimate a dynamic model of optimal tract-level...
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This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …
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disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … evidence showing no change in homework time or other intermediate inputs in education. …
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Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …
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