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Labour Market Matters - April 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
reading and mathematics. The discipline of Economics is generally classified as a “social science†and thus the perception … exists that the post-graduation earnings of an Economics degree graduate would be closer to that of other social science … perception of Economics as a social science with the associated less lucrative wage outcomes compared to disciplines such as …
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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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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
Belley, Phillippe; Lochner, Lance - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts(NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...
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Estimating the BenefiÂ…t of High School for College-Bound Students
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Studies based on instrumental variable techniques suggest that the value of a high school education is large for …-secondary education. To help Â…fill this gap, I measure the value-added of a year of high-school mathematics for university-bound students …
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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...
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Open Enrolment and Student Achievement
Friesen, Jane; Harris, Benjamin Cerf; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with available space, on fourth grade test scores. We find a small, positive effect on the average student; this benefit appears to stem from increased competition among schools,...
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Labour Market Matters - January 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In North America, students with immigrant parents typically achieve higher levels of education than their counterparts …
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Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High School Dropout Decision
Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
-cognitive ability and the value that parents place on education. Our results support three main conclusions. First, cognitive ability at … age 15 has a substantial impact on dropping out. Second, parental valuation of education has an impact of approximately … of dropping out of approximately .03 if his parents place a high value on education but .36 if their education valuation …
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A Competing Risks Analysis of the Determinants of Low Completion Rates in the Canadian Apprenticeship System
Dostie, Benoit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we estimate the determinants of low (and slow) completion rates with a competing risk duration model using data from the National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) 2007. This allows us to distinguish the impact age and duration dependence on the probability of dropping out. We find...
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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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