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We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...
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We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …
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/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …
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This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...
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outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …
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best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …
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, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …
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-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …
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no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …
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We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...
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