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College Majors and Skills : Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads
Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad; Martin, Shawn M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...
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Making College Worth It : A Review of Research on the Returns to Higher Education
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2013
college education is still a sound investment. In this paper, we review the literature on the returns to higher education in …, we conclude that the investment appears to payoff for both the average and marginal student. During the past three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459600
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Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Dynarski, Susan - 2011
This paper examines the effect of early childhood investments on college enrollment and degree completion. We use the random assignment in the Project STAR experiment to estimate the effect of smaller classes in primary school on college entry, college choice, and degree completion. We improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461125
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334396
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Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices : An Exploratory Study
Siegel, Donald - 1999
We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic frontier production function framework is used to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471534
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Forced Displacement and Human Capital : Evidence from Separated Siblings
Chiovelli, Giorgio; Michalopulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of conflict-driven displacement on human capital. We focus on the Mozambican civil war (1977-1992), during which more than four million civilians fled to the countryside, cities, and refugee camps and settlements in neighboring countries. We leverage the full post-war...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794617
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External Validity in a Stochastic World
Rosenzweig, Mark - 2016
the aggregate shocks and the interaction between these shocks and the casual effects. We show that returns to investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456228
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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372451
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Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Cotton, Christopher - 2014
Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …, showing how the effects of AA on human capital investment differ by student ability and demographic group. We then conduct a … field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458269
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Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Doepke, Matthias - 2020
as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model where … reduced relationship-specific investment for less-educated workers in the United States, but not for better-protected workers … in Germany …
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