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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …
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In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
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In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …
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This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied associate's degrees. Using administrative data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that...
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one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by increases in postgraduate education. We … computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …
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technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital … experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that …
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multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …
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schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The …
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It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
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The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...
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