Search Results - subject:"Time to degree"

Do risk aversion and wages explain educational choices?

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert; Prieto, Ana - In: Journal of public economics 117 (2014), pp. 125-148

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College course scarcity and time to degree

Kurlaender, Michal; Jackson, Jacob; Howell, Jessica S.; … - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 24-39

—course scarcity—that we hypothesize may be associated with increased time to degree. We employ a unique administrative dataset from a …

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Do risk aversion and wages explain educational choices?

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - In: Journal of Public Economics 117 (2014) C, pp. 125-148

additional sources of risk. In particular, the time needed to complete a degree is random. The data show that time-to-degree is … individual education choices. The risk affecting education costs and, in particular, the randomness of time-to-degree, also plays …

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The Labor Market for New Ph.D.s in 2002

Siegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2004

This paper reports results from a survey of the labor market experience of the 2001-02 class of Ph.D. economists. We estimate that 850 economics Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2001-02, down about 100 from five years earlier. Of these, 28 percent were women, and 37 percent U.S....

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Quantitizing text: using theme frequency and theme intensity to describe factors influencing time-to-doctorate

Wao, Hesborn; Dedrick, Robert; Ferron, John - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 45 (2011) 4, pp. 923-934

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Time to degree: students' abilities, university characteristics or something else? Evidence from Italy

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia - In: Education Economics 19 (2011) 3, pp. 311-325

to length time to degree. Our results suggest that a comprehensive policy intervention is needed to increase the number …

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The Determinants of Success and Failure of Italian University Students. Evidence from administrative data

Aina, Carmen - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 119 (2011) 2, pp. 85-108

We use unique administrative data from a large private Italian university to estimate whether individual characteristics, academic performance, geographical mobility and family size may affect completion of a degree course or not. Several outcomes are taken into account, namely the probability...

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The Determinants of Success and Failure of Italian University Students. Evidence from administrative data

Aina, Carmen - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2011) 2, pp. 85-108

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Time‐to‐degree and the business cycle

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Education economics 18 (2010) 1, pp. 111-123

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The Determinants of Educational Attainment, University Drop-out and Time-to-Degree. A focus on Italy

Aina, Carmen - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi … - 2010

elapsed time to degree. With regard to these problems we survey the main microeconomic contributions. The results of most …

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