New Working Papers from the NBER

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
by Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Dhiman Das
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Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments
by Rucker C. Johnson
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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present
by William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo
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International Happiness
by David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald
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The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
by Dalton Conley, Jennifer Heerwig
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Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children’s BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous
by Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Elizabeth U. Cascio, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
by Leah Platt Boustan, Robert A. Margo
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The Design of Performance Pay in Education
By Derek Neal
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The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models
by Dalton Conley, Emily Rauscher
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Fertility and the Plough
by Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
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Social Security and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms – Introduction and Summary
by Kevin S. Milligan, David A. Wise
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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
by Lance Lochner
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Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans
by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian
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Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
by Kevin Lang, Erez Siniver
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Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets
by Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo
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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr
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Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED
by Vilsa E. Curto, Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
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Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
by Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, Alexandra Killewald
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Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle
by Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan
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Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
by Katherine Baicker, Jonathan S. Skinner
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The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates
by Jin Young Lee, Gary Solon
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