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Dan A. Black
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 126
Citations - 9859
Dan A. Black is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 124 publications receiving 9289 citations. Previous affiliations of Dan A. Black include Syracuse University & University of Kentucky.
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How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of college quality using propensity score matching methods and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort were estimated using regression-based and matching-based methods.
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Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States: Evidence From Available Systematic Data Sources
TL;DR: This work provides an overview of standard social science data sources that now allow some systematic study of the gay and lesbian population in the United States, and provides a set of statistics about this population that is relevant to several current policy debates.
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Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality
Dan A. Black,Jeffrey A. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider four econometric approaches to the problem that involve the use of multiple proxies for college quality: factor analysis, instruments variables, a method recently proposed by Lubotsky and Wittenberg, and a GMM estimator.
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Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System *
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system, which profiles and trains workers to determine their probability of benefit exhaustion and then provides mandatory employment and training services to workers with high predicted probabilities.
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Job Matching and On-the-Job Training
TL;DR: In this paper, the matching process constitutes a key feature of the on-the-job training model presented in this article and tested with a unique data set containing extensive information concerning on the job training, employer search, wages and wage and productivity growth.