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I Am Beginning to Think That the Backlash Against the Skills-Gap Story of Wage Inequality Has Gone Too Far...: Focus - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

I have always been impressed by vir illustris Mark Hoekstra’s regression-discontinuity story of the value of being admitted to U.T. Austin. As the very sharp Jordan Weissman reports: Jordan Weissman: Does It Matter Where You Go to College?: “Study 3: IF I CAN’T GET INTO A GOOD STATE SCHOOL… …AM I DOOMED? Actually, yeah. You might be…. Mark Hoekstra… compared the earnings of white, male students who had barely missed the admissions cut-off for an unnamed public flagship university to those of students who had barely been accepted…. Enrolling at the flagship increased wages by 20 percent…
#Mark-Thoma #Inequality #Education #Mark-Hoekstra #Jordan-Weissmann #Skills-Gap #College - equitablegrowth.org