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Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine geographic differences in both absolute earnings and relative earnings for economic majors. We...
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We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest...
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We use data from a nationally representative survey of Italian graduates to study whether Alma Mater matters for employment and earnings three years after graduation. We find that the attended college does matter, and that college related differences are substantial both among and within regions...
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qualified international students from attending US colleges and universities. However, citizens from five countries are de facto … exempt from the 2003 H-1B visa restrictions. Using international students from these five exempt nations as the control and … other international students as the treatment group, we study the effects of the 2003 H-1B policy change on the pool of …
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
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market outcomes. Using a field experiment in which graders at one university were randomly assigned students' exams that did … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … continental Europe these costs are not levied on students, but are borne by the national tax payers, making them an active topic … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive …
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students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
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Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
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