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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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Acquiring human capital through the generations by migration
Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - 2013
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...
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Sibling influence on the human capital of the left behind
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - 2013
While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...
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Does expert advice improve educational choice?
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Stenberg, Anders - 2013
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...
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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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Does high school homework increase academic achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
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