Search Results - person:"J. Zimmerman"

Educational "Goodwill" : Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

Nurnberg, Peter Scott - 2011

In this paper we utilize data on the head-to-head loss rate for students accepted at Williams College, but who opt to enroll elsewhere. For example, we employ data that measure the fraction of students admitted to Williams and to Amherst (or Harvard or Yale, etc.) but who opt to attend Amherst...

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Educational "goodwill" : measuring the intangible assets at highly selective private colleges and universities

Nurnberg, Peter; Schapiro, Morton Owen; Zimmerman, David J. - 2011

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Peer effects in higher education

Winston, Gordon C. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Williams College Williamstown, MA 01267 http://www.williams.edu/wpehe © 2003 (Gordon C. Winston and David J. Zimmerman …. University of Chicago Press for the NBER. Peer Effects in Higher Education* Gordon C. Winston and David J …. Zimmerman Williams College January, 2003 DP-64 Abstract This paper was prepared as a chapter for College …

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Peer Effects in Higher Education

Winston, Gordon C. - 2003

In this chapter, we describe the potential significance of student peer effects for the economic structure of and behavior in higher education. Their existence would motivate much of the restricted supply, student queuing, and selectivity and institutional competition via merit aid and honors...

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Students Choosing Colleges : Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution

Nurnberg, Peter Scott - 2010

The college choice process can be reduced to three questions:1) Where does a student apply?2) Which schools accept the students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions...

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Students choosing colleges : understanding the matriculation decision at a highly y selective private institution

Nurnberg, Peter; Schapiro, Morton Owen; Zimmerman, David J. - 2010

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Targeting Investments in Children : Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor); … - 2010

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government’s definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects, resulting in poor educational, labor...

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Children's welfare exposure and subsequent development

Levine, Phillip B.; Zimmerman, David J.; Card, David E. - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 1, pp. 31-56

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Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

Levine, Phillip B. - 2000

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits and its impact on several developmental outcomes. Using data from the matched mother-child file from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's...

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Peer effects in higher education

Winston, Gordon C.; Zimmerman, David J. - In: College choices : the economics of where to go, when to …, (pp. 395-424). 2004

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