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portfolio and compare students with similar portfolios and levels of interest in HBCUs and non-HBCUs who ultimately make … students initially enrolling in HBCUs are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a BA degree and have 5 percent higher … household income around age 30 than those who do not enroll in an HBCU. Initially enrolling in an HBCU also leads to $12 …
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This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …
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We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …
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achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …
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individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …, simple policy instruments can yield the desired distortions: a single nonlinear labor income tax schedule combinedwith income … in income for this range. This result holds along the Pareto frontier. We compare the second best to a situation where …
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optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … graduates as a function of income lies first strictly above their counterparts from high-school, but this reverses at higher …
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