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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017

-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points-equivalent to 3.7 native … students displaced for 9 additional foreign students in an average course. STEM displacement is offset by an increased …

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The expected (signaling) value of higher education

Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020

This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002

When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...

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Mind the gap? : Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil (contributor); Liu, Qian (contributor); … - 2006

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Matching in the dark? : inequalities in student to degree match

Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - 2021

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

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Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2009

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...

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Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 … dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …

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