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The persistence of early childhood maturity: International evidence of long-run age effects

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K Bedard… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract A continuum of ages exists at school entry due to the use of a single school cutoff
date—making the “oldest” children approximately 20 percent older than the “youngest”
children. We provide substantial evidence that these initial maturity differences have long- ...
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Unhealthy assimilation: Why do immigrants converge to American health status levels?

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H Antecol… - Demography, 2006 - Springer
Abstract It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United
States than their American counterparts but that this health advantage erodes over time. We
study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect,” with a particular focus ...
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Human capital versus signaling models: University access and high school dropouts

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K Bedard - Journal of Political Economy, 2001 - JSTOR
Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are
constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high
school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. ...
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Sex preferences, marital dissolution, and the economic status of women

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K Bedard… - Journal of Human Resources, 2005 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract The rise in the divorce rate over the past 40 years is one of the fundamental
changes in American society. A substantial number of women and children now spend some
fraction of their life in single female-headed households, leading many to be concerned ...
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The long-term impact of military service on health: Evidence from World War II and Korean War veterans

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K Bedard… - The American economic review, 2006 - JSTOR
During the World War II and Korean War era, the US military freely distributed cigarettes to
overseas personnel and provided low-cost tobacco products on domestic military bases. In
fact, even today the military continues to sell subsidized tobacco products on its bases. ...
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The racial wage gap

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H Antecol… - Journal of Human Resources, 2004 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Labor market attachment differs significantly across young black, Mexican, and
white men. Although it has long been agreed that potential experience is a poor proxy for
actual experience for women, many view it as an acceptable approximation for men. ...
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Where class size really matters: Class size and student ratings of instructor effectiveness

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K Bedard… - Economics of Education Review, 2008 - Elsevier
We examine the impact of class size on student evaluations of instructor performance using
data on all economics classes offered at the University of California, Santa Barbara from Fall
1997 to Spring 2004. A particular strength of this data is the opportunity to control for both ...
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Are Middle Schools More Effective?

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K Bedard… - Journal of Human Resources, 2005 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract While nearly half of all school districts have adopted middle schools, there is little
quantitative evidence of the efficacy of this educational structure. We estimate the impact of
moving from a junior high school system, where students stay in elementary school longer ...
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Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime?

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H Antecol… - Journal of Population Economics, 2007 - Springer
Abstract There is longstanding evidence that youths raised by single parents are more likely
to perform poorly in school and partake in “deviant” behaviors such as smoking, sex,
substance use, and crime. However, there is not widespread agreement as to whether the ...
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The relative earnings of young Mexican, black, and white women

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H Antecol… - Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2002 - JSTOR
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young
Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than
young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important ...
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Wage and test score dispersion: Some international evidence

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K Bedard… - Economics of education review, 2003 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that wage-setting institutions help explain international
differences in wage inequality. We expand on this theme to explore the role that educational
institutions play in determining differences in wage dispersion across countries and within ...
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School quality and the distribution of male earnings in Canada

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K Bedard - Economics of Education Review, 2003 - Elsevier
Using quantile regressions, this paper provides evidence that the relationship between
school inputs and wages varies across points in the conditional wage distribution and
educational attainment levels. Although smaller classes generally have a positive return ...
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Who goes to graduate/professional school? The importance of economic fluctuations, undergraduate field, and ability

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K Bedard… - Economics of Education Review, 2008 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of fluctuations in entry-level labor market conditions on the
graduate school enrollment decisions of newly minted undergraduate degree holders. Using
repeated cross-section data for recently graduated science and engineering ...
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[PDF] School size and the distribution of test scores

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K Bedard, WO Brown Jr… - Unpublished. Claremont College: …, 1999 - socionet.ru
Abstract After forty years of school consolidation, the preponderance of the evidence,
including the results presented in this paper, suggest that the race to reap returns to scale
and specialization in education may have come at a high price. This paper uses newly ...
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The location of women's prisons and the deterrence effect of “harder” time

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K Bedard… - International Review of Law and Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Most studies of the deterrence effect of incarceration treat a year in prison as having the
same deterrence effect regardless of the conditions of incarceration. In contrast, we are
interested in the deterrence effect of punitiveness that is unrelated to sentence length. We ...
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Needs‐based health care funding: implications for resource distribution in Ontario

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K Bedard, J Dorland, AW Gregory… - Canadian Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Capitation models have been suggested as an alternative to funding methods based on
historical utilization patterns. Capitation funding distributes esources to regions or programs
according to their population, adjusted for the age and gender composition and relative ...
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[PDF] The allocation of public school expenditures

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K Bedard… - Claremont Colleges Working …, 2000 - econ.claremontmckenna.edu
Abstract While the Serrano v Priest decisions and Proposition 13 effectively rendered
California school district budgets exogenous, intra-district resource allocation remains
largely at the discretion of school district administrations. As a result, Serrano v Priest and ...
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[PDF] The Location of Women's Prisons and the Deterrence Effect of Harder Time

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K Bedard… - Claremont Colleges Working …, 2000 - claremontmckenna.edu
The authors wish to thank Heather Antecol, Tom Borcherding, William Brown, Arthur
Denzau, Jay Hamilton, Rick Harbaugh, Peter Kuhn, Joanne Roberts, Richard Wagner,
Edward Schwartz, Janet Kiholm Smith, and the seminar participants at Claremont ...
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[PDF] The gender test score gap across OECD countries

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K Bedard… - manuscript, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007 - sole-jole.org
Abstract This paper begins with three facts. One, math and science skills are scarce
resources that are highly rewarded in the labor market. Two, women are underrepresented
in most university math/science programs and are less likely to be employed in math/ ...
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[PDF] School entry policies and skill accumulation across directly and indirectly affected men

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K Bedard… - 2009 - homes.chass.utoronto.ca
Abstract During the past half century, there has been a trend towards increasing the
minimum age a child must reach before entering school in the United States. States have
accomplished this by moving the school entry cutoff date earlier in the school year: ...
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[CITATION] Educational streaming, occupational Choices and the Distribution of Wages

K Bedard - 1997 - mimeo, McMaster University
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[PDF] Is September better than January? The effect of minimum school entry age laws on adult earnings

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K Bedard… - Unpublished manuscript, 2007 - Citeseer
Abstract During the past half century, there has been a trend towards increasing the
minimum age a child must reach before entering school in the United States. States have
accomplished this by moving the school entry cutoff date earlier in the school year. The ...
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[PDF] The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women: The Role of Extended Family Households

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H Antecol… - Claremont Colleges Working …, 2002 - econ.claremontmckenna.edu
Abstract: We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential
impacts of that cohabitation on the probability of employment for married female immigrants
across regions of origin. This suggests that traditions and/or cultural determinants of family ...
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Early gender test score gaps across OECD countries

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K Bedard… - Economics of Education Review, 2010 - Elsevier
The results reported in this paper contribute to the debate about gender skill gaps in at least
three ways. First, we document the large differences in early gender gaps across developed
countries using a large scale, modern, representative data source. Second, we show that ...
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[PDF] School quality and the distribution of male earnings in Canada

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K Bedard - Claremont McKenna College Mimeo, 1998 - claremontmckenna.edu
The relationship between school quality and student achievement has been debated for
decades. 1 In his survey of the evidence, Hanushek (1986) finds little or no relationship
between school quality and student achievement on standardized tests. On the other hand ...
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[PDF] Does Single Parenthood Increase the Probability of Teenage Promiscuity, Drug Use and Crime?

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H Antecol… - Unpublished paper, Claremont McKenna College, 2002 - Citeseer
Abstract There is longstanding evidence that children raised by single parents are more
likely to perform poorly in school and partake in 'deviant'behaviors such as smoking, sex,
substance use and crime at young ages. However, as of yet there is not widespread ...
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Standardized Mortality Ratios in Capitation Funding Models: Empirical Issues from Canadian Data

K Bedard, J Dorland, A Gregory… - 1997 - ideas.repec.org
Needs based capitation models have been suggested as an alternative to funding methods
based on historical utilization patterns. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) applied in
conjunction with an age/gender adjustment is the most widely adopted measure of relative ...
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[PDF] Is September Better than January? The Effect of School Entry Age Laws on Skill Accumulation

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K Bedard… - 2007 - homes.chass.utoronto.ca
Abstract During the past half century, there has been a trend towards increasing the
minimum age a child must reach before entering school in the United States. States have
accomplished this by moving the school entry cutoff date earlier in the school year: ...
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[PDF] Unhealthy Assimilation: Do Immigrants Converge to American Weights?

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H Antecol… - Claremont McKenna College—Working Paper …, 2004 - cmc.edu
Abstract It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United
States than their American counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We
study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect”, with a particular focus ...
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[PDF] The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences Across Black, Mexican and White Men

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H Antecol… - Claremont Colleges Working …, 2001 - econ.claremontmckenna.edu
Mexican men are more likely to experience unemployment and out of the labor force spells
than are white men. While it has long been agreed that potential experience is a poor proxy
of actual experience for women, many view it as an acceptable approximation for men. ...
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[CITATION] The allocation of public school expenditures, 2000

K Bedard… - Claremont Colleges Working Papers
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[CITATION] rIs September Better than January

K Bedard… - The Effect of School Entry Age Laws on Skill …, 2007
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Prison health care: is contracting out healthy?

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K Bedard… - Health Economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract US prison health care has recently been in the news and in the courts. A particular
issue is whether prisons should contract out for health care. Contracting out has been
growing over the past few decades. The stated motivation for this change ranges from a ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Does Single Parenthood Increase the Probability of Teenage Promiscuity, Drug Use, and Crime?”

K Bedard… - Journal of Population Economics
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Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

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P Babcock, K Bedard, G Charness, J Hartman… - 2011 - nber.org
This paper attempts to isolate, document, and measure a social effect of incentivizing people
in teams. In a field experiment featuring exogenous team formation and opportunities for
repeated social interactions over time, we find social effects that are nearly as large as ...
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The wages of failure: New evidence on school retention and long-run outcomes

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P Babcock… - Education Finance and Policy, 2011 - MIT Press
Abstract By estimating differences in long-run education and labor market outcomes for
cohorts of students exposed to differing state-level primary school retention rates, this article
estimates the effects of retention on all students in a cohort, retained and promoted. We ...
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Standardized mortality ratios and Canadian health-care funding

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K Bedard, J Dorland, AW Gregory… - Canadian Public Policy/ …, 1999 - JSTOR
Des modèles d'imposition par tête basés sur les besoins ont été suggérés comme
alternative aux modes de financement des soins de santé basés sur les taux d'utilisation
historiques. Le ratio de mortalité standard (RMS) de concert avec un ajustement pour l' ...
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[CITATION] Streaming and Inequality: Who Wins?

K Bedard - POLICY OPTIONS-MONTREAL-, 1998 - THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH …
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[CITATION] The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican

H Antecol… - Black, and, 2002
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[PDF] The Persistence of Early Maturity: International Evidence of Long-Run Age Effects

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K Bedard - 2004 - escholarship.org
Abstract: School starting age/date rules mean that there is a continuum of ages within each
starting class–with the “oldest” children being approximately twenty percent older than the
“youngest” children at school entry. We provide substantial evidence that these initial ...
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K Bedard - Brown, Jr., and Eric Helland," School Size and the …, 1999
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[PDF] Does Single Parenthood Increase the Probability of Teenage Promiscuity, Drug Use, and Crime? Evidence from Divorce Law Changes

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H Antecol, K Bedard… - 2001 - escholarship.org
Abstract It has long since been established that children raised by single parents are more
likely to become sexually active, commit illegal acts, and use illegal drugs at young ages.
What has not been determined is whether or not there is a causal effect associated with ...
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[CITATION] The editors of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis would like to thank the following people for reviewing manuscripts from July 2006 through …

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L Aagaard, C Adelman, N Aikens… - … and Policy Analysis, 2007 - epa.sagepub.com
The editors of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis would like to thank the following people
for reviewing manuscripts from July 2006 through September 2007. ... Lola Aagaard Morehead
State University Clifford Adelman Institute for Higher Education Policy Nikki Aikens ...

Teenage Delinquency: The Role of Child Support Payments and Father's Visitation

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H Antecol… - 2002 - books.google.com
Single parenthood, stepfamilies and combined families have become commonplace in the
United States. The number of children who spend all or part of their childhood apart from
one or more biological parent increased from approximately 12 per cent to 40 per cent ...
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[PDF] Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives

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P Babcock, K Bedard, G Charness, J Hartman… - 2011 - uis.no
Abstract: This paper attempts to isolate, document, and measure a social effect of
incentivizing people in teams. In a field experiment featuring exogenous team formation and
opportunities for repeated social interactions over time, we find social effects that are ...
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[CITATION] The structure of education and the distribution of wages

K Bedard - 1996 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 6686604. The structure of education and the distribution of wages / (1996).
Bedard, Kelly. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., Canada, 1996..
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-120).. Photocopy. Details der Publikation. ...
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[CITATION] Andersson, Gunnar, Karsten Hank, Marit Rønsen, and Andres Vikat.

G Andersson, T Noack, A Seierstad… - Demography, 2006
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[CITATION] Wage and Test Score Dispersion [computer File]: Some International Evidence

C Ferrall… - 1997 - Institute for Economic Research, …
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[PDF] Letting Down the Team? The Efficacy of Individual Versus Team Incentives

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P Babcock, K Bedard, G Charness, J Hartman… - 2010 - sole-jole.org
ABSTRACT In a pay-for-exercise field experiment that features exogenous team formation,
random assignment of individual and team treatments, and opportunities for repeated social
interactions over time, this paper investigates the effectiveness of incentivizing people in ...
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[CITATION] Burgess, Robin Camerer, Colin F. Campante, Filipe Campbell, John Y. Carroll, Christopher

H David, CN Avery, L Babcock, D Backus, G Baker… - MIT Press

[CITATION] Faculty Directory

K Bedard - 2012 - econ.ucsb.edu
Faculty Directory. Kelly Bedard The Maxwell C. and Mary Pellish Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Queen's University (labor economics, health economics). ... Winter 2012 classes taught. Econ
594LR - SPEC TOP ECONOMICS - F 1200-100. Kelly Bedard's homepage. Kelly Bedard. ...
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[PDF] School Entry Policies and Skill Accumulation Across Directly and Indirectly Affected Individuals

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K Bedard… - 2011 - homes.chass.utoronto.ca
Abstract During the past half century, there has been a trend towards increasing the
minimum age a child must reach before entering school in the United States. States have
accomplished this by moving the school entry cutoff date earlier in the school year: from ...
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No cohort left behind?

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P Babcock, K Bedard… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged
benefits of smallness—of classroom or school—and is based on evidence from small-scale
studies. This paper reframes the question in terms of cohort size. Using national data, we ...
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Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy?

HE Frech… - 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: US Prison health care has recently been in the news and in the courts. A particular
issue is whether prisons should contract out for health care. Contracting out has been
growing over the past few decadest. The stated motivation for this change ranges from a ...

[PDF] Wage Gains From Failure: New Evidence on School Retention Policies and Long-run Outcomes

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P Babcock… - 2009 - nber.org
ABSTRACT By estimating differences in long-run education and labor market outcomes for
cohorts of students exposed to differing state-level primary school retention rates, this paper
estimates the effects of retention policy on all students in a cohort, retained and promoted. ...
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Against All Odds: The Surprising Labor Market Success of Young Mexican Women

H Antecol… - Canadian International Labour Network Working … - ideas.repec.org
Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 11.7% less than young White
women while young Black women earn 19.2% less than young White women. Although
young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well ...
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[PDF] The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences

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H Antecol… - 2002 - escholarship.org
Mexican men are more likely to experience unemployment and out of the labor force spells
than are white men. While it has long been agreed that potential experience is a poor proxy
of actual experience for women, many view it as an acceptable approximation for men. ...
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