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Default and Repayment Among Baccalaureate Degree Earners
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
More than low default rates, lenders are interested in the expected return on their loans. In this paper, we consider a number of other measures of repayment and nonpayment that are likely to be of direct interest to lenders. Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, we...
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Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid
Angrist, Joshua; Autor, David; Hudson, Sally; Pallais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship program for applicants to Nebraska's public colleges and universities. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119803
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Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from college admission cutoffs in Chile
Hastings, Justine S.; Neilson, Christopher A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Understanding how returns to higher education vary across degree programs is critical for effective higher education policy. Yet there is little evidence as to whether all degrees improve labor market outcomes, and whether they do so for students from different types of backgrounds. We combine...
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Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment
Bound, John; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
dominated by public and non-profit production, and colleges and universities receive considerable subsidies from state, federal … accommodated fully by colleges and universities without commensurate increases in non-tuition revenue. For this reason, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084824
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Credit Constraints in Education
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints are increasingly important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294899
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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.
Hoxby, Caroline; Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and … output, both among European countries and among U.S. public universities. We then identity a (political) source of exogenous … shocks to funding of U.S. universities. We demonstrate that, when a state's universities receive a positive funding shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830645
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Affirmative Action: One Size Does Not Fit All
Krishna, Kala; Tarasov, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821827
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Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969286
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The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that...
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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
Duflo, Esther; Benhassine, Najy; Devoto, Florencia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950637