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作者：Bond, Timothy N.; Bulman, George; Li, Xiaoxiao; Smith, Jonathan
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Villanova University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：We estimate whether students update the colleges to which they consider applying in response to large, unanticipated information shocks generated by the release of SAT scoresa primary factor in admission decisions. Exploiting population data on the timing of college selection and a policy that induces students to choose colleges prior to taking the exam, we find that students update their portfolios in terms of selectivity, tuition, and sector. However, the magnitude of updating is too modest ...
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作者：Zou, Ben
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：I evaluate the local economic impacts of contractions in US military personnel between 1988 and 2000. I propose a novel empirical strategy combining the synthetic control and instrumental variables methods and estimate the causal effects on the equilibrium quantities and prices of local labor, housing, and product markets. Contractions in military personnel substantially reduced local civilian employment; however, local populations adjusted quickly, mainly through reduced in-migration, resulti...
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作者：Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Bjoern
作者单位：IZA Institute Labor Economics; Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Mannheim
摘要：Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public day care. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public day care, which implies a compensated price elasticity of -0.6. There is little labor supply response in the full sample, although there are declines for vulnerable subgroups. Spillover ...
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作者：Taylor, Eric S.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：I study how teachers' assigned job tasksthe practices they are asked to use in the classroomaffect the returns to math skills in teacher productivity. The results demonstrate the importance of distinguishing between workers' skills and job tasks. I examine a randomized trial of different approaches to teaching math, each codified in a set of day-to-day tasks. Teachers were tested to measure their math skills. Teacher productivitymeasured by student test scoresis increasing in math skills when ...
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作者：Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on both college enrollment and earnings. Exploiting that colleges dismiss low-performing students on the basis of exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissal leads to a short-run increase in earnings and tuition savings, but the future fall in earnings is sufficiently large that 8 years after dismissal, persisting students have already recouped their up-front inve...
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作者：Knepper, Matthew
摘要：The number of workplace sex discrimination charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission approaches 25,000 annually. Do the subsequent judicial proceedings suffer from a discriminatory gender bias? Exploiting random assignment of federal district court judges to civil cases, I find that female plaintiffs filing workplace sex discrimination claims are substantially more likely to settle and win compensation whenever a female judge is assigned to the case. Additionally, female j...
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作者：Gong, Jie; Lu, Yi; Song, Hong
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Tsinghua University; Fudan University
摘要：This paper examines the role of teacher gender in education production. We extend student outcomes from traditionally focused academic achievement to noncognitive outcomes. Using a representative survey of middle school students in China, we focus on schools where student-teacher assignments are random. Our results show that having a female teacher raises girls' test scores and improves their mental status and social acclimation relative to those of boys. There is evidence that female teachers...
