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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...
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We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained …-taking a costly ex-ante investment in schooling. We establish the existence of market equilibria where a fraction of men get …
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …
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attitudes regarding Title IX and women's rights are correlated with this remaining gender gap. Examining individual high school … income distribution …
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In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields. This study estimates the effect of class size on...
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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...
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Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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This paper explores students’ expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
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Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...
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This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to for-profit postsecondary school and community college attendance using a two-step model to avoid recent concerns with single-stage fixed effects methods. Specifically, we link administrative records on for-profit school and...
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