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Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016
Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...
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The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality : Evidence from Canada
Lacroix, Guy - 2020
We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …
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The GED
Heckman, James J. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip; von Wachter, Till; Heisz, Andrew - 2021
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States
Zhang, Liang - 2016
We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and...
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
Winters, John V. - 2014
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the state if the college graduates leave the state after...
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States : Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the destination country of the vast majority of migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American...
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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?
Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production … production in the U.S., but not in Canada. The cyclical indicator, the adult male unemployment rate, has a weak positive effect …
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