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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...
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The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education
Hai, Rong; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school …
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On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes : Impacts of Randomly Assigned Neighborhoods For Children in Military Families
Kawano, Laura; Sacerdote, Bruce; Skimmyhorn, William L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes experienced during childhood have powerful impacts on SAT scores, college-going and earnings. For earnings and college going outcomes, location during high school is twice as...
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Do Reforms Aimed at Reducing Time to Graduation Work? Evidence from the Italian Higher Education System
Malacrino, Davide; Nocito, Samuel; Saggio, Raffaele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the impact of a reform aimed at expediting graduation times in Italian universities by reducing the number of exams students must pass to obtain a fixed number of credits. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform's staggered implementation, we find that this...
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Financial Aid and Social Mobility : Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga
Londoño Vélez, Juliana; Rodríguez, Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper studies the impact of financial aid on long-term educational attainment and labor market outcomes in Colombia. In 2014, the government launched a large-scale and generous student loan program called "Ser Pilo Paga." It offered full tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33...
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Who Benefited from World War II Service and the GI Bill? New Evidence on Heterogeneous Effects for US Veterans
Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...
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The youth labor market problem : its nature, causes, and consequences
Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor);  … - 1982
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Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2000
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2000
There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their … well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths … pursue these risky activities: for example, youth homicide fell by 40%; teen births decline by 20%; youth smoking rose by 33 …
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Youth Smoking in the U.S : Evidence and Implications
Gruber, Jonathan - 2000
determinants of the youth smoking decision. We explore four aspects of this decision. First, we consider the demographic correlates … youth; indeed, increasingly over time youth smoking is taking place among white, suburban youth with college educated … 25 and 50% of the rise in youth smoking in the 1990s will persist into adulthood for this cohort; rough calculations …
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