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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...

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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey

Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006

This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …

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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013

We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950–1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013

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Consequences of Divorce for Childhood Education : Australia, Canada, and the USA, 1940-1990

Evans, M. D. R.; Kelley, Jonathan; Wanner, Richard A. - 2008

estimate models controlling many potentially confounding variables. Divorce costs seven-tenths of a year of education, mainly …

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From Off the Bench : The Potential Role of the U.S. Department of Education in Reforming Due Process in the NCAA

Despain, Joshua - 2015

other due process procedure the Secretary [of Education] determines by regulation to be necessary.” Student …-athletes, coaches, and their supporters have never looked to the Department of Education (“DOE”) before to correct the wrongs they …

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Understanding U.S. Wage Dynamics

Abdih, Yasser - 2018

In this paper, we undertake empirical analysis to understand U.S. wage behavior since thebeginning of the new millennium. At the macroeconomic level, we find that aproductivity-augmented Phillips curve model explains the data fairly well. The modelreveals that the upward pressure on wage growth...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth : Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel C.; Higgins, Matthew J. - 2015

find that (i) the percentage of a county's population with less than a high-school education is negatively correlated with … percentage obtaining some college education has no clear relationship with economic growth but (iv) the percentage that obtains a … county's population obtaining a bachelor degree or higher level of college education has a positive relationship with …

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Ageing and Literacy Skills : Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States

Green, David A. - 2012

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a weak negative partial...

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