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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since … students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss … private colleges admit, what prices they charge, and the number of students who enroll in any college. We show that capturing …
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The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...
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Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...
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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...
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The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated with research on the influence...
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In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple …, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students …
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this decline is most pronounced amongst men beginning college at less-selective public 4-year schools and amongst students … preparedness of entering students and the component due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources …
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The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and … students from China. Given the concentration of high quality colleges and universities in the U.S., there has been a … substantial increase in the demand for enrollment among students from abroad. At the same time, substantial declines in state …
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The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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