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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318870
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2009
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … children's education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069078
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … children's education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319638
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? : The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004
their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262157
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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents? education and children?s education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … children?s education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261633
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Why the apple doesn't fall far: Understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … children's education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318452
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E.; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2021
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317022
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Efficacy vs. equity : what happens when states tinker with college admissions in a race-blind era?
Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2014
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462908
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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039572
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Patterns, determinants, and consequences of ability tracking : evidence from Texas public schools
Antonovics, Kate; Black, Sandra E.; Cullen, Julie Berry; … - 2022
Schools often track students to classes based on ability. Proponents of tracking argue it is a low-cost tool to improve learning since instruction is more effective when students are more homogeneous, while opponents argue it exacerbates initial differences in opportunities without strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367077