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Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

Lang, Kevin - 2012

/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

We present the first estimates of the returns to years of schooling before 1940 using a large sample of men and women, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of high school, and to a year of college, were...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece …

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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1996

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth : A Cautionary Tale of LATE

Barua, Rashmi - 2009

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Baker, Olesya - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications : Better Data, Somewhat Different Results

Lang, Kevin - 2013

more students at not-for-profits earn a BA, making them less likely to have only an Associate's degree. There is …

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3 : The Fragility of Results

Bond, Timothy N. - 2012

ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine …

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The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector : Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2011

, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey we assess … outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended …

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