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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 … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987067
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544177
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Effects of high-achieving peers : findings from a national high school assignment system
Alkan, Ahmet; Sarpça, Sinan - 2023
ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national … large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435264
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408972
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Unraveling the fortunes of the fortunate : an Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) approach
Eicher, Theo S. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495629
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Jointness of growth determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot (contributor); Weeks, Melvyn (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497528
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A rise by any other name? : sensitivity of growth regressions to data source
Hanousek, Jan (contributor); Hajkova, Dana (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499719
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor);  … - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301163
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On the estimation of the volatility-growth link
Launov, Andrey; Posch, Olaf; Wälde, Klaus - 2014
It is common practice to estimate the volatility-growth link by specifying a standard growth equation such that the variance of the error term appears as an explanatory variable in this growth equation. The variance in turn is modelled by a second equation. Hardly any of existing applications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418202