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A Bridge to Graduation : Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams

Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

exam, those who eventually graduate through an alternative project-based pathway have lower college enrollment, but similar …High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … employment outcomes to students who graduate by retaking and passing their exit exams. Compared to similar students who fail to …

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Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Eide, Eric R.; Mumford, Kevin J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional...

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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...

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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....

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Returns to Different Postsecondary Investments : Institution Type, Academic Programs, and Credentials

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Smith, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

credential (associates degree, bachelor's degree, diploma, certificate, graduate degree), the control of the institution (public …, remedial education, field of study, and graduate school. The wide variation in the returns to different postsecondary …

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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark

Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce their employees' wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3...

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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 1981

This study uses Current Population Survey cohort data and the National Longitudinal Survey for men aged 14-24 in 1966 to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market for graduates. The principal finding is that the...

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Students' Heterogeneous Preferences and the Uneven Spatial Distribution of Colleges

Fu, Chao; Guo, Junjie; Smith, Adam J.; Sorensen, Alan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We estimate a model of high school students' college choices, allowing for rich heterogeneity in students' preferences for college attributes. We use data on students' enrollment decisions and application decisions--i.e., the sets of colleges to which they applied--to identify the distribution...

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Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-college Periods : New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations

Crossley, Thomas F.; Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both the college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults' beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce a new measure of the ex post accuracy of beliefs, and two new approaches...

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Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education : Does College Remediation Work?

Bettinger, Eric P. - 2005

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately … it affect their educational progress? This project addresses these critical questions by examining the effects of math …

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