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Demand for higher education programs : the impact of the Bologna process

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portela, Miguel; Sá, Carla; … - 2006

restructuring of higher education currently underway, by looking at its implications on the demand for academic programs. It … quantification of the demand for each academic program is facilitated by the rules of access to higher education, in a nation … principles were subject to higher demand than comparable programs that did not restructure, as if Bologna were understood as a …

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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to...

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The effects of education on health : an intergenerational perspective

Huebener, Mathias - 2018

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different...

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Intergenerational persistence of education, smoking and birth weight : evidence from three generations

Costi, Chiara; Migali, Giuseppe; Zucchelli, Eugenio - 2024

The identification of factors affecting birth weight is a key issue in human development due to its established associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to...

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Does exposure to economics bring new majors to the field? : evidence from a natural experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2015

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An important component of the first-year curriculum...

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Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries : evidence from an education reform in Senegal

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Larouche, Alexandre; Trandafir, … - 2015

While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...

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Tuition fees as a commitment device

Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, … - 2014

This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...

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Door opener or waste of time? : the effects of student internships on labor market outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2014

This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at German universities as an instrument for completing an internship while attending university....

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Centralized admission and the student-college match

Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016

Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...

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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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