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Danny Yagan
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 34
Citations - 4185
Danny Yagan is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earnings & Human capital. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 34 publications receiving 3449 citations. Previous affiliations of Danny Yagan include National Bureau of Economic Research & Harvard University.
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How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
Raj Chetty,John N. Friedman,John N. Friedman,Nathaniel G. Hilger,Nathaniel G. Hilger,Emmanuel Saez,Emmanuel Saez,Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach,Danny Yagan,Danny Yagan +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that kindergarten test scores are highly correlated with outcomes such as earnings at age 27, college attendance, home ownership, and retirement savings, and it is documented that students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other outcomes.
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How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
Raj Chetty,John N. Friedman,John N. Friedman,Nathaniel G. Hilger,Nathaniel G. Hilger,Emmanuel Saez,Emmanuel Saez,Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach,Danny Yagan,Danny Yagan +9 more
TL;DR: In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade as discussed by the authors, and the experimental data was linked to administrative records.
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Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight and explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy, highlighting the large gaps between theory and policy and asking whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around.
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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013, and find that access to colleges varies greatly by parent income.
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Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
TL;DR: Mankiw et al. as discussed by the authors explored the interplay between tax theory and tax policy and identified key lessons policymakers might take from the academic literature on how taxes ought to be designed, and discussed the extent to which these lessons are reflected in actual tax policy.