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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

Belley, Phillippe; Lochner, Lance - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

document a dramatic increase in the effects of family income on college attendance (particularly among the least able) from the … NLSY79 to the NLSY97. Family income has also become a much more important determinant of college `quality' and hours …/weeks worked during the academic year (the latter among the most able) in the NLSY97. Family income has little effect on college …

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Is Debt Relief as Good as Liquidity? The Impact of Prospective Student Debt on Post-Secondary Attendance among Low-Income Youth

Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

In this study, I estimate the impact of offering two large non-refundable grants to low-income Canadian youth on postsecondary attendance. The grants had two interesting features. First, they were clawed back from loans, thus reducing costs but providing no additional liquidity. Second, the...

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Long Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation

Emery, Herb; Ferrer, Ana; Green, David - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Tight labour markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil producing economies like the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks of 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long term effect on the productivity of the...

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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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How Important are School Principals in the Production of Student Achievement?

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Smith, Justin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...

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Measuring Productivity in the Public Sector: Some Conceptual Problems

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

In many sectors of the economy, governments either provide various services at no cost or at highly subsidized prices. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure the price and quantity of nonmarket government...

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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. The approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem, without imposing ad hoc exclusion restrictions or requiring...

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Disabled or Young? Relative Age and Special Education Diagnoses in Schools

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Lipscomb, Stephen - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

This study extends recent findings of a relationship between the relative age of students among their peers and their probability of disability classification. Using three nationally representative surveys spanning 1988-2004 and grades K-10, we find that an additional month of relative age...

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How Would One Extra Year of High School Affect Wages? Evidence from a Unique Policy Change

Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

This paper uses a unique policy change in Canadaâ€™s most populous province, Ontario, to provide direct evidence on the effect of reducing the length of high school on labour market outcomes for high school graduates. In 1999, the Ontario government eliminated the fifth year of education...

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