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In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958928
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …
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th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological … Nebraska. -- agricultural development ; black and white biological conditions …
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county matter for local economic development and the channels through which the cultural, institutional, and educational … them and pass on to their children are positively associated with local development in the US. Among these factors …
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By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...
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