Test Scores, Schools, and the Geography of Economic Opportunity
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Keywords
Human capital; intergenerational mobility; value-added;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-URE-2018-11-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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