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- What do we know about right-to-work laws and state prosperity? Not much, because of limited variation over time in which states are RTW states
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More on the finding that college pays off less if you grew up poor
My colleague Brad Hershbein and I have a new blog post at the Upjohn Institute website on our recent surprising discovery: the percentage return to getting a college degree, in terms of higher earnings, versus getting only a high school … Continue reading
Posted in Educational returns, Timing of benefits
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We have enough evidence to expand quality pre-K
Professor Dale Farran of Vanderbilt University has a new policy brief at the Brookings Institution website, entitled “We need more evidence in order to create effective pre-K programs”. This policy brief makes the skeptical researchers’ case for collecting more research … Continue reading
Posted in Early childhood program design issues, Early childhood programs, Uncategorized
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Reflections coming out of the recent AEI forum debating pre-K
On Wednesday, February 17, I participated in a forum at the American Enterprise Institute. The forum, organized by AEI Research Fellow Katharine Stevens, was entitled “Does pre-K work? A look at the research.” Forum participants, in addition to me, were … Continue reading
Posted in Early childhood program design issues, Early childhood programs, National vs. state vs. local, Uncategorized
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What do we know about right-to-work laws and state prosperity? Not much, because of limited variation over time in which states are RTW states
Vigorous debate continues over the issue of “right-to-work” (RTW) laws, and how they affect a state’s economic growth and wage rates. Right-to-work laws make it illegal to require workers in unionized workplaces to pay dues to the unions that represent … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Uncategorized
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Human Capital Programs Can Promote Local Economic Development; As Illustration, Consider “Promise-style” Place-Based College Scholarship Programs
A recent paper by me and a research analyst at the Upjohn Institute, Nathan Sotherland, analyzes the effects of “place-based” college scholarship programs on local economic development. Over 50 of these programs have been created since the 2005 creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Business incentives, Early childhood programs, Economic development
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Social benefits from job creation much higher in high-unemployment local economies
A paper of mine was just published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. The paper is entitled “The Social Value of Job Loss and Its Effect on the Costs of U.S. Environmental Regulations”. The paper deals with a … Continue reading
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Good policies will usually not “fix everything”
One surprising reaction to the Kalamazoo Promise has been to try to downplay the Promise’s success by emphasizing that many problems remain in Kalamazoo despite the Promise. While this is true, it is irrelevant to whether the Kalamazoo Promise is … Continue reading
Posted in Distribution of benefits
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Thinking again about earlier-age versus later-age interventions in skills development
The recent paper on the Kalamazoo Promise, by me and my colleagues Brad Hershbein and Marta Lachowska, found that this program, which provides up to 100% free college tuition for graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools, increases college completion sufficiently to … Continue reading
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Kalamazoo Promise boosts college completion by one-third
In a paper released on June 25, 2015, the Kalamazoo Promise college scholarship program is estimated to increase college completion by one-third. The college completion effects of the Promise would be expected to significantly increase future earnings. Based on predicted … Continue reading
Increasing educational performance and reducing educational disparities is more feasible if pursued through high-productivity interventions, including but not limited to early childhood education
On May 27, 2015, the Upjohn Institute released a report on Michigan’s school finance system and how to reform it to improve student performance in Michigan, and lessen disparities among children in various income groups. The lead author of the … Continue reading
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