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Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2016

nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …

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Exit Exams and High School Dropout

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2011

interests with those of the school and encourage teachers and administrators to provide effort and resources on the students …

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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe : A Long Run Perspective

Braga, Michela - 2011

In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...

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No Pass No Drive : Education and Allocation of Time

Barua, Rashmi - 2012

Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements for teenagers to obtain driving licenses. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and...

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Mental Health and Education Decisions

Cornaglia, Francesca - 2012

Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...

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Delayed Graduation and Overeducation : A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis

Aina, Carmen - 2012

The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link between graduation not within the minimum period and overeducation, and the effects of these...

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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Messer, Dolores - 2007

When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration of their studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where students determine the optimum...

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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Education : Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting Across East Africa

Anand, Paul - 2019

Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these two factors separately. This paper considers them...

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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment : The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2015

This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...

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