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作者：Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing
作者单位：American University of Beirut; Peking University
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as early as high school. Using administrative data from China, we find that exposure to high-performing female peers in mathematics increases the likelihood that women choose a science track during high school, while exposure to more high-performing males decrease this likelihood. We also find that peer quality has persistent effects on college outcomes. Overall, there is little evidence of peer effects...
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作者：Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
作者单位：University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Low-skill workers are comparatively immobile. This paper estimates the role of housing prices and social transfers in accounting for this fact using a spatial equilibrium model. Reduced-form estimates using US census data show that positive local labor demand shocks increase population more than negative shocks reduce population, that this asymmetry is larger for low-skill workers, and that such an asymmetry is absent for average wages, housing values, and rental prices. Generalized method of ...
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作者：Groen, Jeffrey A.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Polivka, Anne E.
作者单位：United States Department of Labor; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
摘要：Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the US Gulf Coast in 2005. We use job-level data to compare the evolution of earnings for affected workers in four states with workers from matched control counties. We attribute short-term earnings losses to job separations and long-term gains to wage growth in the affected areas. Wages rose due to reduced labor supply and increased labor demand in the affected labor markets. Damage to a worker's residence or workplace accentuated short-term earnings los...
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作者：De Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin
作者单位：University of Oslo; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Statistics Norway; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：We investigate the effect of Head Start on education and wage income for individuals in their 30s in the NLSY79. We contribute to the existing literature by examining effects across outcome distributions, using an approach that relies on two weak stochastic dominance assumptions that can be checked using pre-Head Start cohorts. We find that Head Start has positive and statistically significant effects on years of education and wage income. We also uncover important heterogeneity in the program...
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作者：Bianchi, Nicola
作者单位：Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Increasing access to education may have consequences that go beyond effects on marginal students encouraged to enroll. It may change peer effects, school quality, and returns to skill. This paper studies how classmates and teaching inputs affect learning of university students, exploiting an educational expansion in Italian STEM majors. Newly collected data on 27,236 students indicate that less prepared classmates and congestion of teaching resources lowered learning of incumbent students in S...
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作者：Speroni, Cecilia; Wellington, Alison; Burkander, Paul; Chiang, Hanley; Herrmann, Mariesa; Hallgren, Kristin
作者单位：Mathematica
摘要：This paper presents findings from a national experimental evaluation of performance bonuses funded by the Teacher Incentive Fund grant program. The study finds no robust evidence of positive impacts of bonuses on student achievement, although some specifications suggest a small positive effect that compares favorably with other education interventions. When controlling for covariates, we find that offering bonuses of an average yearly cost of $100 per student had a small significant impact of ...
