University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Employment During High School: Consequences for Students’ Grades in Reading and Mathematics

Warren, John, Paul LePore, and Robert Mare Working paper no. 1996-23 Abstract In this paper we ask how employment during high school affects students’ grades in mathematics and reading courses. We argue that prior research has been inadequate in three important respects. First, too little attention has been paid to the operationalization of employment in …

Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Educational Mobility, and Racial Inequality

Mare, Robert Working paper no. 1997-03 Abstract Recent commentary has suggested that the relatively high fertility of poorly educated women tends to dampen the average intellectual qualifications of the population. To evaluate this claim requires a model of population growth that takes account of fertility differences among women with varying levels of educational attainment and …