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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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Skills or degree? : the rise of skill-based hiring for AI and green jobs

Ehlinger, Eugenia Gonzalez; Stephany, Fabian - 2023

university education for AI roles declined by 23%, while AI roles advertise five times as many skills as job postings on average …For emerging professions, such as jobs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or sustainability (green), labour …. Our analysis also shows that university degrees no longer show an educational premium for AI roles, while for green …

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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …

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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...

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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results

Asheim, Geir B. - 2002

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …

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To consolidate or not to consolidate? : a multi-step analysis to assess needed fiscal sustainability

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar - 2022

specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …

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The circular economy

Fullerton, Don - 2024

Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...

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Expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

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