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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 5/6, pp. 471-483
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
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Ova and out : using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college
Smith, Jonathan - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 166-180
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296360
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HBCU enrollment and longer-term outcomes
Edwards, Ashley; Ortagus, Justin; Smith, Jonathan; … - 2023
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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