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Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?

Tyler, John H. - 2008

We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of taking the "GED path" to postsecondary education....

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Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education

Groen, Jeffrey - 2006

Doctoral programs in the humanities and related social sciences are characterized by high attrition and long times-to-degree. In response to these problems, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched the Graduate Education Initiative (GEI) to improve the quality of graduate programs and in turn...

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The GED

Heckman, James J. - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards : Evidence from Academic Probation

Lindo, Jason M. - 2008

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being placed on academic probation. Consistent with a model of introducing performance standards in which agents respond differently based on ability, we find that being placed on...

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Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink : An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

Angrist, Joshua - 2006

High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large...

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Hoffmann, Florian - 2006

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...

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Tax Aspects of Policy Towards Aging Populations : Canada and the United States

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1990

In comparing Canada with the U.S., we first simulate the U.S. demographic transition, treating the U.S. as a closed … Canada simulations, Canada is assumed to be an open economy which takes the U.S. interest rate as given. The simulations … indicate that demographics are likely to have significant effects on rates of saving and taxation in both the U.S. and Canada …

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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 … payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely …

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Demographic Differences in Cyclical Employment Variation

Clark, Kim B. - 1980

Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three primary conclusions emerge. First, both participation and unemployment must be considered in any analysis of cyclical changes in the labor market. Second, young people bear a...

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The Young, the Old, and the Restless : Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility

Jaimovich, Nir - 2008

We investigate the consequences of demographic change for business cycle analysis. We find that changes in the age composition of the labor force account for a significant fraction of the variation in business cycle volatility observed in the U.S. and other G7 economies. During the postwar...

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