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A second chance at education for early school leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-ping - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school … Survey of Australian Youth and duration models that control for unobserved heterogeneity, our results suggest that programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575116
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Adult education attendance and postsecondary outcomes
Kouwe, Thomas; Ribar, David C.; Greenberg, Daphne; … - 2023
This paper analyzes postsecondary enrollment and academic outcomes for people who attended adult education classes in Georgia between July 2017 and December 2020, using linked administrative records for students in the state's adult education, technical college, and university systems. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338551
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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system
Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - 2016
This study assesses whether mental health interventions can improve academic outcomes for justice-involved youth. Only … under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452177
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College attrition and the dynamics of information revelation
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2023
We examine how informational frictions impact schooling and work outcomes. To do so, we estimate a dynamic structural model where individuals face uncertainty about their academic ability and productivity, which respectively determine their schooling utility and wages. Our framework accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423767
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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224588
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We investigate the role of time and reference-dependent preferences in such decisions. Using a data set that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795216
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School entry, compulsory schooling, and human capital accumulation : evidence from Michigan
Hemelt, Steven W.; Rosen, Rachel B. - 2016
Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance in early grades. In this paper, we explore the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457926
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Why does education reduce crime?
Bell, Brian; Costa, Rui; Machin, Stephen - 2018
education reform from a different setting in Australia corroborates the finding of dynamic incapacitation underpinning education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910664
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Compulsory class attendance versus autonomy
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2021
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy on learning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of an increased autonomy policy for higher-performing students on short- and longer-term school outcomes. We exploit an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589912
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775