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The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence From Prison Inmates

by Lance Lochner, Enrico Moretti - California Research Bureau, California State Library
"... We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity accounting for endogeneity of schooling. We first analyze the effect of schooling on incarceration using Census data and changes in state compulsory attendance laws over time as an instrument for schooling. Changes in these la ..."
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rates. We corroborate our findings on incarceration using FBI data on arrests that distinguish among different types of crimes. The biggest impacts of education are associated with murder, assault, and motor vehicle theft. We also examine the effect of schooling on self-reported crime in the NLSY

the NLSY79 Survey Data

by unknown authors
"... Children of the NLSY79 will soon be available on CD-ROM. This disc contains information about the children and young adults of the NLSY79. It also contains data from the 1986-94 child and young adult interviews as well as cognitive and socioemotional assessments. The 1996 survey collected informatio ..."
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Children of the NLSY79 will soon be available on CD-ROM. This disc contains information about the children and young adults of the NLSY79. It also contains data from the 1986-94 child and young adult interviews as well as cognitive and socioemotional assessments. The 1996 survey collected

The Wage Penalty For Motherhood

by Michelle Budig, Paula England, Address Michelle, J. Budig, Paula Engl , 2000
"... Motherhood is associated with lower hourly pay, but the causes of this are not well understood. Mothers may earn less than other women because having children causes them to (1) lose job experience, (2) be less productive at work, (3) trade off higher wages for motherfriendly jobs, or (4) be discrim ..."
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) be discriminated against by employers. Or the relationship may be spurious rather than causal; women with lower earning potential may have children at higher rates. Using 1982-1993 NLSY data, we examine the motherhood penalty with fixed-effects models chosen to avoid spuriousness. We find penalties of 7 percent

Bureau of Labor Statistics Release of the Round 1 NLSY97 Data

by The Round Nlsy Main , 1997
"... geocode data files are now available for distribution to researchers. The newest survey in the National Longitudinal Surveys program, the NLSY97 represents the U.S. population born during 1980 through 1984. Through the annual NLSY97 survey, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will be able to identi ..."
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geocode data files are now available for distribution to researchers. The newest survey in the National Longitudinal Surveys program, the NLSY97 represents the U.S. population born during 1980 through 1984. Through the annual NLSY97 survey, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will be able

Bureau of Labor Statistics NLSY79 Workhistory Data Release

by unknown authors
"... The latest NLSY79 workhistory data CD-ROM has been released to the public. The CD-ROM contains data on employment collected during the 1996 interview, as well as all similar data from the previous interviews. The NLSY79 workhistory data file contains a unique set of created variables. This construct ..."
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The latest NLSY79 workhistory data CD-ROM has been released to the public. The CD-ROM contains data on employment collected during the 1996 interview, as well as all similar data from the previous interviews. The NLSY79 workhistory data file contains a unique set of created variables

Integrating person-centered and variable-centered analyses: Growth mixture modeling

by Bengt Muthén, Linda K. Muthén - SECTION V/MODELS FOR LATENT VARIABLES with , 2000
"... Background: Many alcohol research questions require methods that take a person-centered approach because the interest is in finding heterogeneous groups of individuals, such as those who are susceptible to alcohol dependence and those who are not. A person-centered focus also is useful with longitud ..."
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by including not only continuous latent variables but also categorical latent variables. Results: Four examples that use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data are presented to illustrate latent class analysis, latent class growth analysis, growth mixture modeling, and general growth mixture

Session 2520 Considering Numerical Error Propagation in Modeling and Regression of Data

by Neima Brauner, Mordechai Shacham
"... The use of user-friendly interactive regression software enables undergraduate engineering students to reach a high level of sophistication in regression, correlation and analysis of data. In order to interpret correctly the results, the students must be familiar with potential causes for poor fits ..."
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The use of user-friendly interactive regression software enables undergraduate engineering students to reach a high level of sophistication in regression, correlation and analysis of data. In order to interpret correctly the results, the students must be familiar with potential causes for poor fits

2000), The dynamics of educational attainment for blacks, hispanics, and whites, Working Paper No. 7249, National Bureau of Economic Research

by Stephen V. Cameron, James J. Heckman, We Thank Stephanie Aaronson, Joseph Altonji, Shubham Chauduri, Terri Devine
"... This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of racial and ethnic disparity in college atten-dance. Parental income in the child’s adolescent years is a strong predictor of this disparity. This is widely interpreted to mean that credit constraints facing fa ..."
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families during the college-going years are important. Using NLSY data, we find that it is the long-run factors associated with parental background and family environment, and not credit constraints facing prospective students in the college-going years, that account for most of the racial-ethnic college

The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

by John Kennan, James R. Walker , 2003
"... The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and it al ..."
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), and it allows for many alternative location choices. The model is estimated using panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration decisions are influenced to a substantial extent by income prospects. The results suggest that the link between

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics NLSY97 Round-14 Data Released

by unknown authors
"... (NLSY97) have been released. Users now can access NLSY97 main file data, event history data, and geocode data from round 1 through round 14. The NLSY97 cohort is comprised of 8,984 respondents born in the 1980– 1984 period. In round 14, which was fielded from October 2010 to June 2011, 7,479 persons ..."
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(NLSY97) have been released. Users now can access NLSY97 main file data, event history data, and geocode data from round 1 through round 14. The NLSY97 cohort is comprised of 8,984 respondents born in the 1980– 1984 period. In round 14, which was fielded from October 2010 to June 2011, 7
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