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Time-Use and Academic Peer Effects in College

Mehta, Nirav - 2018

This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...

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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major

Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

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Gender differences in completed schooling

Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Luoh, Ming Ching - In: The review of economics and statistics 85 (2003) 3, pp. 559-577

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Gender Differences in Completed Schooling

Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2002

This paper summarizes the dramatic changes in relative male-females educational attainment over the past three decades. Stock measures of education among the entire adult population show rising attainment levels for both men and women, with men enjoying an advantage in schooling levels...

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A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout

Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2013

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic/interested about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students …

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Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-college Periods : New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations

Crossley, Thomas F.; Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

not detectable by existing mean-based tests. Beliefs about future income are found to become more accurate as students …

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Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …

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