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Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2020

Risk aversion is typically inferred from real or hypothetical choices over risky lotteries, but such "untutored" choices may reflect mistakes rather than preferences. We develop a procedure to disentangle preferences from mistakes: after eliciting untutored choices, we confront participants with...

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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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Public Universities : The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce

Bound, John - 2019

Over the past few decades, public universities have faced significant declines in state funding per student. We investigate whether these declines affected the educational and research outcomes of these schools. We present evidence that declining funding induced public universities to shift...

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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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Heckman, James J. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence

Tyler, John - 1995

college graduates or for older (45-54 year old) female college graduates. For all these groups, real earnings increased during … the 1980s and the percentage in 'high school jobs' declined. The assertion is valid only for older male college graduates …. Young college graduates improved their labor market position during the 1980s by increasingly obtaining degrees in …

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School Spirit : Legislator School Ties and State Funding for Higher Education

Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2018

We explore a new mechanism to understand state funding for public colleges and universities by leveraging data on the educational experiences of state legislators, specifically if and where they received postsecondary education. Using novel, hand-collected data from 2002 through 2014, we provide...

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Engineering Educational Opportunity : Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science

Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2017

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide...

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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness

Eren, Ozkan - 2017

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a southern U.S. state to the public school...

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