Overview
Dwight Davis is a sociologist and co-author with Jennie Brand on research examining heterogeneous effects of college education. His work applies the Brand-Xie propensity-score HLM framework to study how the fertility-decreasing effects of college vary across women's propensity to attend.
Key Contributions / Features
- Heterogeneous college effects on fertility (Brand and Davis 2011): Co-authored Demography paper extending the Brand-Xie (2010) approach to fertility outcomes, finding negative selection — women least likely to attend college experience the largest fertility-decreasing effects of doing so. See Heterogeneous Treatment Effects.
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