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Cohen research notes marriage rate and divorce level shift
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Faculty Associate Philip Cohen analyzed declining divorce rates for not-college-educated in recent years
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The impact of education on fertility in the U.S. over five decades
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Philip Cohen examines the educational gradient in completed fertility
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Dean's Lecture Series - William F. Tate, Louisiana State University
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From Prenatal to the Block: Reimagining the Geography of Opportunity
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Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
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When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
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Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico
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NSF award funds collaboration between scholars at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania to study the effects of supply-side and demand-side policies
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How Ending a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Impacts Children’s School Enrollment: Evidence from Mexico
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Susan W. Parker, Public Policy
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The Shifting Salience of Skin Color for Educational Attainment
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Findings of an association between skin color and educational attainment have been fairly consistent among Americans born before the civil rights era, but little is known regarding the persistence of this relationship in later born cohorts. The authors ask whether the association between skin color and educational attainment has changed between black American baby boomers and millennials. The authors observe a large and statistically significant decline in the association between skin color and educational attainment between baby boomer and millennial black women, whereas the decline in this association between the two cohorts of black men is smaller and nonsignificant. Compared with baby boomers, a greater percentage of the association between skin color and educational attainment among black millennials appears to reflect educational disparities in previous generations. These results emphasize the need to conceptualize colorism as an intersectional problem and suggest caution when generalizing evidence of colorism in earlier cohorts to young adults today.
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Amelia Branigan, Ph.D.
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Amelia Branigan Publications
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Low-Touch Attempts to Improve Time Management among Traditional and Online College Students
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We evaluate two low-cost college support programs designed to target poor time management, a common challenge among many undergraduates. We experimentally evaluate the programs across three distinct colleges, randomly assigning more than 9,000 students to construct a weekly schedule in an online planning module and to receive weekly study reminders or coach consultation via text message. Despite high participation and engagement, and treated students at two sites marginally increasing study time, we estimate precise null effects on student credit accumulation, course grades, and retention at each site for the full sample and for multiple subgroups. The results and other supplemental evidence suggest that low-touch programs that offer scheduling assistance, encouragement, and reminders for studying lack the required scope to significantly affect academic outcomes.
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Nolan Pope, Ph.D.
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Nolan Pope Publications
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Nolan Pope, Economics UMD
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Timing is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions
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The Return to Private Education: Evidence from School-to-Work Transitions
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This paper investigates the labor market returns to high school types. We exploit comprehensive administrative data describing the school-to-work transition for the universe of Chilean students attending tenth grade in 2001. We discuss the role of self-selection into school types, pre-labor market abilities, firm characteristics, and present bounds for the parameters of interest. Attending private high schools has long-lasting e ects on earnings. Moreover, the long-term returns to school-level valueadded measures and monetary investments in education are larger among private-school students. Our findings provide new insights into the association of school choice and the inertia of income inequality.
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Sergio Urzua, Ph.D.
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Sergio Urzua Publications
