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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....

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Matching disadvantaged children to day care : evidence from a centralized platform

Groote, Olivier De; Rho, Minyoung - 2024

We use data from a platform that centralizes a day care matching process. We estimate parents' preferences and nursery priorities by analyzing parents' rank-ordered lists and nurseries' acceptance decisions. We account for strategic behavior by using a novel estimation approach inspired by the...

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Matching disadvantaged children to day care : evidence from a centralized platform

Groote, Olivier De; Rho, Minyoung - 2024

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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...

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Benefits to elite schools and the expected returns to education : evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - In: European economic review : EER 95 (2017), pp. 168-194

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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150

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Major-occupation match quality : an empirical measure based on relative productivity

Leighton, Margaret; Speer, Jamin D. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 1, pp. 285-292

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Accounting for qualification in mismatch unemployment

Bauer, Anja - 2023

This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial … part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level …. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward trend in mismatch unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID …

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Mismatch, sorting and wage dynamics

Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2013

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analysing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labour market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilirium model of wage determination and employment which extends the...

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Accounting for mismatch unemployment

Herz, Benedikt; Rens, Thijs van - 2015

We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework … that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as the contribution of the frictions that … caused the mismatch. Mismatch is quantitatively important for unemployment and the cyclical behavior of mismatch unemployment …

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