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Fast Locations and Slowing Labor Mobility 1.48 MB 380 downloads
This paper offers an explanation for declining internal migration in the United States...
How Important are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence From A Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005 715.06 KB 488 downloads
A substantial and rapidly growing literature has developed around estimating earnings...
Some Like it Hot: Assessing Longer-Term Labor Market Benefits from a High-Pressure Economy 1.89 MB 468 downloads
This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using...
Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation 698.89 KB 554 downloads
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation.... ...
Individual Social Capital and Migration 907.56 KB 437 downloads
This paper determines how individual, relative to community social capital affects...
The Effects of Differential Pay on Teacher Recruitment and Retention 962.92 KB 616 downloads
Traditionally, teacher salaries have been determined solely by experience and educational attainment....
Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years After Lillard, Smith, and Welch 4.66 MB 488 downloads
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge...
The Gender Gap in Stem Attainment 885.81 KB 388 downloads
I investigate the determinants of high school completion and college attendance,...
CLEP Me Out of Here: The Impact of Prior Learning Assessments on College Completion 1.27 MB 811 downloads
This paper estimates the impact of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP),...