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401.

Industry-Specific Capital and the Wage Profile: Evidence from the NLSY and the PSID
Parent, Daniel

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Using data from the NLSY (1979-1991) and from the PSID (1981-1987), l seek to determine whether there is any net positive return to tenure with the current employer once we control for industry-speciﬁc capital. Using data from the PSID, Topel…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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402.

Split Sample Instrumental Variables
Krueger, Alan B. - Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates tend to be biased in the same direction as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) in ﬁnite samples if the instruments are weak. To address this problem we propose a new IV estimator which we call Split Sample…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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403.

The Extent of Measurement Error in Longitudinal Earnings Data
Krueger, Alan B. - Bound, John

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines the properties and prevalence of measurement error in longitudinal earnings data. The analysis compares Current Population Survey data to administrative Social Security payroll tax records for a sample of heads of households over two years. In contrast
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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404.

Education, Unemployment and Earnings
Ham, John C. - Ashenfelter, Orley

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Using data on adult male workers we first investigate the incremental effect of a year of schooling on unemployed hours, and use this calculation to explain the difference in the pro- portional effects of schooling on earnings and wages. Schooling
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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405.

How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence From Microdata, 1984-89
Krueger, Alan B.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population Survey and…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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406.

Why Do Economists Disagree About Policy? The Roles of Beliefs About Parameters and Values
Krueger, Alan B. - Poterba, James - Fuchs, Victor

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper reports the results of surveys of specialists in labor economics and public economics at 40 leading research universities in the United States. Respondents provided opinions of policy proposals; quantitative best estimates and 95% conﬁdence intervals for economic parameters;…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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407.

A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany
Krueger, Alan B. - Pischke, Jorn-Steffen

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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408.

Occupational Matching: A Test of Sorts
McCall, Brian P.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper develops a model of occupational matching where, within an occupation, information at one job may be useful for predicting the match at other jobs. Recent developments in the theory of superprocesses are used to derive the optimal sampling…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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409.

Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation
Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Anecdotal evidence suggests that uncontrolled managers let wages rise above competitive levels. Testing this popular perception has proven difficult, however, because independent variation in the extent of managerial discretion is needed. In this paper, we use states’ passage of anti-takeover
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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410.

Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
Krueger, Alan B.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper analyzes data on 11,600 students and their teachers who were randomly assigned to different size classes from kindergarten through third grade. Statistical methods are used to adjust for non-random attrition and transitions between classes. The main conclusions are:…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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411.

The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR
Krueger, Alan B. - Whitmore, Diane

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper provides a long-term follow-up of students who participated in the Tennessee STAR experiment. The Tennessee STAR experiment randomly assigned l 1,600 elementary school students and their teachers to a small class, regular-size class or regular-size class with a…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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412.

Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's?
Blank, Rebecca

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper investigates cyclicality in real wages between 1969 and 1982, using 14 years of data from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. First, it investigates the extent to which movements in and out of the labor market created apparent…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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413.

The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply: A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation
Krueger, Alan B. - Pischke, Jorn-Steffen

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper uses aggregate birth year/calendar year level data derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the effect of Social Security wealth on the labor supply of older men in the l970s and 1980s. The analysis focuses on…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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414.

Bargaining Power, Strike Durations, and Wage Outcomes: An Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s
Olson, Craig A. - Card, David

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We study strike durations and outcomes for some 2000 disputes that occurred between 1881 and 1886. Most post-strike bargaining settlements in the 1880s fell into one of two categories: either a union "victory", characterized by a significant wage gain or…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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415.

Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation?
Card, David - Blank, Rebecca - Newey, Whitney

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper presents new evidence on the reasons for the recent decline in the fraction of unemployed workers who receive unemployment insurance benefits. Using samples of unemployed workers from the March Current Population Survey, we estimate the fraction of unemployed…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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416.

Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B. - Mas, Alexandre

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper studies the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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417.

Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials
Card, David - Lemieux, Thomas

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	During the 1980s wage differentials between younger and older workers and between more and less educated workers expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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418.

Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
Rouse, Cecilia

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In 1990, Wisconsin became the first state in the country to provide vouchers to low income students to attend non-sectarian private schools. In this paper, I use a variety of estimation strategies and samples to estimate the effect of the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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419.

Sex Discrimination and Market Concentration: The Case of the Banking Industry
Ashenfelter, Orley - Hannan, Timothy

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper, we have examined the relationship between market structure and employment discrimination using an especially constructed data set that links microeconomic data on female employment and indicators of market concen- tration in the banking industry. By using firm-specific…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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420.

Sticking It Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - Joulfaian, David - Rosen, Harvey

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We examine why some individuals survive as entrepreneurs and others do not. In addition. we analyze the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, conditional on surviving. Our focus is on the role of access to capital--to what extent do liquidity constraints increase…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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421.

A Study of the Wage Impacts of Unions and Industrial Councils in South Africa
Rouse, Cecilia - Butcher, Kristin

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Some argue that a high union wage premium and the industrial council system are important causes of inﬂexibility in the South African labor market. We estimate union premia on the order of 20 percent for African workers and 10 percent…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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422.

Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S. - Gowa, Joanne

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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423.

Minimum Chi-Square and Three-Stage Least Squares in Fixed Effects Models.
Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Two approaches to estimation and testing of fixed effects models are commonly found in the econometrics literature. The first involves variations on instrumental variables. The second, a Minimum Chi-Square (MCS) procedure introduced by Chamberlain, minimizes a quadratic form in the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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424.

Why Do World War II Veterans Earn More Than Nonveterans?
Krueger, Alan B. - Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Veterans of World War II are widely believed to earn more than nonveterans of the same age. Theoretical justifications for the World War II veteran premium include the subsidization of education and training, and preference for veterans in hiring. In…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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425.

Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
Krueger, Alan B. - Card, David

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper estimates the effects of school quality -- measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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426.

Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
Krueger, Alan B. - Autor, David - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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427.

Daily Labor Supply of Stadium Vendors: An Empirical Analysis of Participation and Effort Decisions
Oettinger, Gerald

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper analyzes the labor supply behavior of food and beverage vendors at a single major league baseball stadium over an entire season. In contrast to the conven- tional labor supply model, the vendors who I study are paid a…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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428.

Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
Greenstone, Michael - Ashenfelter, Orley

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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429.

Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence From the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
Rouse, Cecilia

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper I review the existing evaluations of the effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on student achievement. Two of the three existing papers report significant gains in math for the choice students and two of the three…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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430.

Layoffs and Lemons
Katz, Lawrence - Gibbons, Robert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we provide theoretical and empirical analyses of an asymmetric-information model of layoffs in which the current employer is better informed about its workers’ abilities than prospective employers are. The key feature of the model is that when…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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431.

The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment
Meyer, Bruce - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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432.

Labor Supply Preferences, Hours Constraints, and Hours-Wage Tradeoffs
Paxson, Christina - Altonji, Joseph

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In a labor market in which firms offer tied hours-wage packages and there is substantial dispersion in the wage offers associated with a particular type of job, the best job available to a worker at a point in time may…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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433.

Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration
Card, David

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	More than one million new immigrants currently enter the United States every year. In this paper I use 1990 Census data to study the effects of immigrant inﬂows on the local labor market opportunities of natives and older immigrants. I…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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434.

Variation in Employment Growth in Canada: The Role of External, National, Regional and Industrial Factors
Altonji, Joseph - Ham, John C.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper presents a method for assessing the impact of external, national, and sectoral shocks on Canadian employment fluctuations at the national, industry, and provincial levels. Special attention is given to the contribution of sectoral shocks to aggregate employment fluctuations.…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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435.

Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling
Krueger, Alan B. - Farber, Henry S. - Kling, Jeffrey R.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	An instrumental variable can be used to identify the labor market return to schooling by allowing comparisons between groups of individuals whose differences in schooling levels are uncorrelated with their underlying marginal benefit from schooling and with other aspects of
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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436.

A Comparison of Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Medical Malpractice
Farber, Henry S. - White, J. Michelle

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this study we examine the experience of a single large hospital with an informal pre-litigation “complaint” process that resolves some cases outside of the legal system. The empirical results are generally consistent with an information structure where patients are…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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437.

Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Luttmer, Erzo - Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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438.

Democratization or Diversion? The Effect of Community Colleges on Educational Attainment
Rouse, Cecilia

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Throughout the late 1970s and the early 1980s, over 50% of all ﬁrst-time ﬁrst-year college students started in a junior college. Despite such a large role in higher education, we know relatively little about how well they serve their role…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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439.

Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - Joulfaian, David - Rosen, Harvey

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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440.

Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance Coverage
Shore-Sheppard, Lara

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Federal legislation passed in the late 1980s greatly expanded the potential coverage of the Medicaid program. Whereas in 1985 Medicaid was essentially limited to mothers and children on AFDC, by the early 1990s eligibility was expanded to include all children…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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441.

Grouped Data Estimation and Testing in Simple Labor Supply Models
Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Labor supply research has not yet produced a clear statement of the size of the labor supply elasticity nor how it should be measured. Measurement error in hourly wage data and the use of inappropriate identifying assumptions can account for…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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442.

The Analysis of Inter-Firm Worker Mobility
Farber, Henry S.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	I use a sample of over fourteen thousand full-time jobs held by workers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine mobility patterns and to evaluate theories of inter-firm worker mobility. The roles of both heterogeneity and state…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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443.

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
Krueger, Alan B. - Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until a specified birthday, induce a relationship between years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school start age created by children's date…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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444.

Job Queues and Wages: New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure
Krueger, Alan B. - Holzer, Harry - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper uses job applications data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex—ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessive supply of labor as measured by the number…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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445.

Testing the Response of Consumption Change
Siow, A. - Altonji, Joseph

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper tests the rational expectations lifecycle model of consumption against (i) a simple Keynesian model and (ii) the rational expectations lifecycle model with imperfect capital markets. The tests are based upon the relative responsiveness of consumption to income changes…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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446.

The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics: A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students
Rouse, Cecilia - Dynan, Karen

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Although women are underrepresented in the ﬁeld of economics, many people see little need for intervention, arguing that women are inherently less interested in economics, or are less willing or able to acquire the math skills needed to do well…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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447.

Alternative Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss
Farber, Henry S.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs ﬁnd work in alterna- tive employment arrangements such as temporary work, part-time work, and independent contracting rather than as conventional full-time “regular” employees. The analysis is based on data from…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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448.

Intraschool Variation in Class Size: Patterns and Implications
Rouse, Cecilia - Boozer, Michael

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Economists attempting to explain the widening of the black-white wage gap in the late 1970's by differences in school quality have been faced the problem that recent data reveal virtually no gap in the quality of schools attended by blacks…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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449.

Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
Liebman, B. Jeffrey - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from a program in which eligibility for a housing voucher was determined by random lottery. We examine the experiences of…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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450.

Introgressive hybridization betwen Brahea dulcis X B. nitida (Arecaceae) complex in México: evidence from morphological and PCR-RAPD patterns
Ramírez Rodríguez, R - Tovar Sánchez, E - Jiménez Ramírez, Jaime - Vega, FK - Rodríguez, V

Formato:	Artículo
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2013-04-11
Recurso:	Facultad de Ciencias - UNAM