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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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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
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Female Science Advisors and the Stem Gender Gap
Canaan, Serena - 2019
In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM …
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and Their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy
Machin, Stephen J. - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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Secular Satiation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...
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