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The mortality crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in particular between 1989 and 1991, in some age groups by up to thirty percent. This study first examines the developments of mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed...
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Centralized admission and the student-college match
Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016
institutions to investigate its impact on student sorting, migration and enrollment. We find that institutions under the …
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Should value-added models control for student absences?
Gershenson, Seth - 2016
Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as … account for student attendance, and many districts' value-added models condition on lagged student absences as a result. Using … matched teacher-student administrative data from a state-wide longitudinal data system, this note investigates the practical …
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Immigrant educators and students' academic achievement
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
native teachers, within schools. The second compares the achievement of a student with an immigrant teacher in one subject to … the achievement of the same student with a native teacher in another subject. The results suggest that, overall, immigrant …
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...
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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and cost
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015
Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For...
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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015
student attends a top ranked school, but that these programs do reduce the likelihood of enrolling at less prestigious out …
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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