Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws.
How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among teenagers with birthdays near school-entry cutoff dates. We estimate that an additional year of high school raises th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 294 - 319 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Spring2006
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