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Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078638
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Lochner, Lance; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084486
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Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951010
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Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field
Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
training with the public higher education system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951022
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Financial Aid Policy: Lessons from Research
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In the nearly fifty years since the adoption of the Higher Education Act of 1965, financial aid programs have grown in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951357
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The Returns to the Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education
Hoxby, Caroline; Bulman, George B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Three tax credits benefit households who pay tuition and fees for higher education. The credits have been justified as … an investment: generating more educated people and thus more earnings and externalities associated with education. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271417
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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Economics of Education Review</I>. Volume 38, pages 51-63.<P> Recent … studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of … boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255713
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Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California
Murnane, Richard J.; Steele, Jennifer L.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This study capitalizes on a natural experiment that occurred in California between 2000 and 2002. In those years, the state offered a competitively allocated $20,000 incentive called the Governor's Teaching Fellowship (GTF) aimed at attracting academically talented, novice teachers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248907
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Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy
Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652852
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Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Dynarski, Susan; Wiederspan, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Each year, fourteen million households seeking federal aid for college complete a detailed questionnaire about their finances, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). At 116 questions, the FAFSA is almost as long as IRS Form 1040 and substantially longer than Forms 1040EZ and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652876