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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood
Bjerk, David - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 110-122
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school … differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who feel “pulled” out of school (i.e., they say they dropped out of …
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost 500,000 dropouts passed the test, amounting to 12% of all high …
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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
: 0.76 fewer employers (↓ 19%) and $674 fewer earnings (↓ 21%) per year. We develop a novel econometric framework that …
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Is the return to education the same for everybody? : while a four-year college degree is financially beneficial for most people, it is not necessarily the best option for everyone
Webber, Douglas A. - 2014
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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The quality of immigrant source country educational outcomes: Do they matter in the receiving country?
Li, Qing; Sweetman, Arthur - In: Labour Economics 26 (2014) C, pp. 81-93
International test scores are used to proxy the quality of source country educational outcomes and explain differences in the rate of return to schooling among immigrants in Canada. The average quality of educational outcomes in an immigrant's source country and the rate of return to schooling...
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The medium-term labor market returns to community college awards: Evidence from North Carolina
Liu, Vivian Y.T.; Belfield, Clive R.; Trimble, Madeline J. - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015) C, pp. 42-55
college credits. The authors also investigate the returns to subject field, transfer, and the early trajectories of wages. The …
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 161-175
of white-collar workers’ wages with respect to the local college share is around 0.1, while we find no evidence of a … positive effect of local human capital on blue-collar workers’ wages. …
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Parental Background and Earnings: German Evidence on Direct and Indirect Relationship
Cornelissen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 554-572
background on employees’ earnings. To examine indirect effects we estimate the determinants of the employees’ years of schooling …
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Chapter 5. Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining
Podgursky, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 279-313). 2011
the smaller literature on the effect of teacher collective bargaining on earnings and school outcomes. …
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Earnings persistence and schooling returns
Andini, Corrado - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 482-484
The standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns disregards earnings persistence. Using longitudinal data … for Belgian male workers (ECHP, 1994–2001), we show that earnings persistence matters. …
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