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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family …

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The expected (signaling) value of higher education

Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020

scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …

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Biased beliefs and entry into scientific careers

Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - 2020

We investigate whether excessively optimistic beliefs may play a role in the persistent demand for doctoral and post-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the provision of structured information on the...

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Tracking when ranking matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

education programs in France. We find that 70% of the inequality in success in these exams between students from different …

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College admission as a screening and sorting device

Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022

How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...

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Violence and human capital investments

Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019

In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these...

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Education and growth with learning by doing

Marconi, Gabriele; Grip, Andries de - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...

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Brain drain-induced brain gain and the Bhagwati tax : are early and recent paradigms compatible?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper examines whether the early view regarding brain drain's (BD) negative impact on source countries and the Bhagwati tax (BT) associated with it, is compatible with the recent...

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