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Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Postsecondary Degrees: Evidence from Chile
Reyes, Loreto; Rodríguez, Jorge; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We analyze the economic returns to different postsecondary degrees in Chile. We posit a schooling decision model with unobserved ability, observed test scores and labor market outcomes. We benefit from administrative records to carry out our empirical strategy. Our results show positive average...
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Liberty for More: Finance and Educational Opportunities
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class families. We define "able" students as those with learning aptitude scores in the top two-thirds of the U.S. population. We define "middle class" as families in which both parents...
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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity
Wolfe, Barbara L.; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Dynarski, Susan; Hyman, Joshua M.; Schanzenbach, Diane … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
random assignment in the Project STAR experiment to estimate the effect of smaller classes in primary school on college entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325529
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Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Bailey, Martha J.; Dynarski, Susan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
since the early 1980s. But among women, inequality in educational attainment has risen sharply, driven by increases in the … thirty years ago, are now substantial, with women outpacing men in every demographic group. The female advantage in …
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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration
Lang, Kevin; Baker, Olesya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We … relatively modest effects of high school exit exams except on incarceration. Exams assessing academic skills below the high … school level have little effect. However, more challenging standards-based exams reduce graduation and increase incarceration …
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Small Differences that Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College
Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper estimates the sensitivity of students' college application decisions to a small change in the cost of sending standardized test scores to colleges. Using confidential ACT micro data, I find that when the ACT increased from three to four the number of free score reports that ACT-takers...
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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
estimates of the effects of exam school attendance on inframarginal applicants. These estimates suggest that the causal effects … of exam school attendance for 9th grade applicants with running variable values well away from admissions cutoffs differ …
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena; Goodman, Joshua; Nomi, Takako - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on credits earned, test scores, high school graduation and college enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821883
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Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …
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