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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
In: The journal of human resources, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 641-683
ISSN: 1548-8004
Religious Pluralism and the Transmission of Religious Values Through Education
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10569
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The Evolution of the Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply Over Time
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 16393
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Allocating Scarce Organs: How a Change in Supply Affects Transplant Waiting Lists and Transplant Recipients
In: Dickert-Conlin, Stacy, Todd Elder, and Keith Teltser. 2019. "Allocating Scarce Organs: How a Change in Supply Affects Transplant Waiting Lists and Transplant Recipients." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (4): 210-39.
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 4159
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Measuring and Correcting Monotonicity Bias: The Case of School Entrance Age Effects
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 17088
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A Deadly Disparity: A Unified Assessment of the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Band 11, Heft 1
ISSN: 1935-1682
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We provide a unified assessment of a striking disparity in the United States: the differential rate at which white and black infants die. We separate the overall mortality gap into three temporal components—fitness at birth, conditional neonatal mortality, and conditional post-neonatal mortality—and quantify the extent to which each of the components can be predicted using a flexible reweighting method. Almost 90 percent of the overall mortality gap is due to differential fitness at birth, little of which can be predicted by racial differences in background characteristics. The remaining mortality gap stems from conditional post-neonatal mortality differences, nearly all of which can be predicted by background characteristics. The predictability of the mortality gap has declined substantially over the past two decades, largely because the mortality gap among extremely low-fitness infants is increasingly unrelated to background characteristics.
Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables when Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization
In: American economic review, Band 98, Heft 2, S. 345-350
ISSN: 1944-7981
An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling
In: The journal of human resources, Band XL, Heft 4, S. 791-821
ISSN: 1548-8004
Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
In: Journal of political economy, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 151-184
ISSN: 1537-534X
Selection on observed and unobserved variables: Assessing the effectiveness of Catholic schools
In: Journal of political economy, Band 113, Heft 1, S. 151-184
Opioids and Organs: How Overdoses Affect the Supply and Demand for Organ Transplants
In: Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper Series Forthcoming
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The Role of Neonatal Health in the Incidence of Childhood Disability
In: NBER Working Paper No. w25828
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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification
In: NBER Working Paper No. w25829
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