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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?

Ketel, Nadine - 2018

We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The payoff is...

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Field of Study and Family Outcomes

Artmann, Elisabeth - 2018

intergenerational effects on children's education. This means that field of study does not only affect individual labor market outcomes …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me : Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

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Long-Term Effects of Class Size

Fredriksson, Peter - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

Leuven, Edwin - 2011

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...

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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …

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