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Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)
Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-quality schools. Recent Massachusetts data allow the first use of school district fixed ...
The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing. Using five data sets from the US and UK, I show that poor infant health increases the likelihood of a ...