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We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as...
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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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We analyze the early labor market outcomes of U.S. college graduates from the classes of 1974 to 2011, as a function of the economic conditions into which they graduated. We have three main findings. First, poor labor market conditions substantially disrupt early careers. A large recession at...
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. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% lost a job, internship, or a job offer, and 29% expect to …,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …
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themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs …
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Using College and Beyond data and a variant on Dale and Krueger's (2002) matched-applicant approach, this paper revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions: we examine new outcomes related to labor force...
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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market outcomes of their students. There is no consensus, however, on how such measures should be constructed, or how the … systems. We conclude that labor market data provides information that is quite distinct from students' academic outcomes …
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paper uses panel data for two different cohorts that follow students from high school through college and into their post … minority students are substantial, contrary to the anecdotes in play in the media and in the courts …
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distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative admissions policies. We … students. The first--highly ranked students at schools which previously sent few students to the flagship university …--gain access due to the policy; the second--students outside the top tier at traditional "feeder" high schools--tend to lose access …
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