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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults and labor market outcomes?
Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2019
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …
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Educational reform and disadvantaged students : are they better off or worse off?
Bishop, John H. (contributor); Mañé, Ferran (contributor) - 2004
This paper analyzes the effects of increased academic standards on both average achievement levels and on equality of opportunity. The five policies evaluated are: (1) universal Curriculum-Based External Exit Exam Systems, (2) voluntary curriculum-based external exit exam systems with partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520228
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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
Almost all countries worldwide closed schools at the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis. I document that schooling time dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas,...
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the dispersion of wages
Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2017
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223398
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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806721
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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The consumption value of higher education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide … higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for the willingness to pay for the consumption value of a particular type … of higher education. Even when controlling for ability selection, we find on US data that Liberal Arts graduates were …
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