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I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all ethnicities attend college in greater numbers, have...
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We draw on administrative data from the country of Colombia to assess differences in student learning in online and … students in online and on-campus programs both across and within institutions, degrees, and majors. Using inverse probability … results suggest that bachelor's degree students in online programs perform worse on nearly all test score measures (including …
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Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research … online education affects the number of people pursuing education. We study the Georgia Institute of Technology's Online M ….S. in Computer Science, the earliest model to combine the inexpensive nature of online education with a highly-ranked degree …
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We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase … results suggest that by increasing competitive pressure on local schools, online education can be an important driver of … the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small …
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This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on … interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state...
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In Fall 2014, Wellesley College began mandating pass/fail grading for courses taken by first-year, first-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice and performance, using a...
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responses of youth or the effectiveness of policies aimed at influencing those decisions. States and the federal government …
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As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint discrete-continuous utility maximization model of college attendance and college completion. The paper is motivated by the possibility that test scores are poor predictors of...
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Higher Education based on the sense of commitments to research, types of programs offered and selectivity of admission of …
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