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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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Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms

Kapor, Adam - 2018

This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs about admissions chances differ from rational expectations...

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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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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

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Estimating the Return to Schooling : Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

Card, David - 2021

This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education system as exogenous determinants of schooling outcomes. A simple theoretical model that highlights...

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The Demand for and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertain

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2021

The vast literature on human capital and earnings assumes that individuals know in advance that they will complete a particular program of schooling. This paper treats education as a sequential choice that is made under uncertainty. A simple two period structural model is used to explore the...

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The Returns to College(S) : Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent - 2023

Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

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