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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

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Intended college enrollment and educational inequality : do students lack information?

Peter, Frauke; Zambre, Vaishali - 2016

constraints on post-secondary educational decisions. Our knowledge on potential effects of other constraints regarding university …

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Informing students about college : an efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of information in a randomized controlled trial with...

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...

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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?

Doty, Elena; Kane, Thomas J.; Patterson, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...

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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success

Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human capital development - by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents, we explore...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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Innovation, Decentralization, and Planning in a Multi-Region Model of Schumpeterian Economic Growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) an aggregate economy of N>2 regions and (iii) an aggregate economy of N=2 …

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