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Graetz, Georg - 2023

A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...

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Learning but not earning? : The value of job corps training for Hispanic youths

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso (contributor); … - 2005

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators revealed a positive impact of Job Corps training in the weekly earnings of white and black...

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Improving matching under hard distributional constraints

Fragiadakis, Daniel; Troyan, Peter - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 863-908

requirements at each Army branch in military cadet matching and diversity considerations in school choice, whereby school districts … the mechanism is run). We show that these current solutions ignore important information contained in the submitted … properties. We expect the use of our mechanisms to improve the performance of matching markets with distributional constraints in …

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Education and the welfare gains from employment protection

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2010

to schooling and aggregate welfare. -- Human capital ; job destruction ; matching frictions ; efficiency …

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Family ties : school assignment with siblings

Dur, Umut Mert; Morrill, Thayer; Phan, William - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 89-120

We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last...

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On the Welfare Effects of Affirmative Actions in School Choice

Liu, Yun - 2018

, and the intrinsic difficulty of embedding diversity goals into stable matching mechanisms. Under some regularity …

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Measuring Manipulability of Matching Mechanisms

Imamura, Kenzo; Tomoeda, Kentaro - 2022

Pathak and Sönmez (2013) provided support for many real-world school choice reforms by showing that the post-reform mechanisms are often “less manipulable” than the pre-reform mechanisms according to their criterion of manipulability. In many realistic preference domains including...

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A signaling model of university selection

Anić, Ivan; Božin, Vladimir; Uroševic, Branko - 2016

We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …

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Distorted Quality Signals in School Markets

Cuesta, José Ignacio - 2020

Information plays a key role in markets with consumer choice. In education, data on schools is often gathered through … distortions in school quality information. These distorted quality signals affect parents' school choice and induce misallocation …

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Grades and employer learning

Hansen, Anne Toft; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021

This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...

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