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An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo - 2016
-educated, occupying non-professional and sub-paid positions. We propose that the deterioration in higher education quality has been a … causes related to labor demand. The main objective is to explore and quantify the extent to which higher education quality … college quality on the individual condition of underemployment in the long run. The source of variability for identifying this …
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of … Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on a continuous measure of institutional quality. This highlights that the … returns to quality are heterogenous, and mostly driven by high quality institutions. Moving from an institution in the 3rd …
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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data
Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011
We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129088
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?
Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority studentsﾒ demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...
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The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011
I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118268
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Publishing Trends in Economics Across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
Winkler, Anne E. - 2011
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
Christofides, Louis N. - 2012
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099703
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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
Ou, Dongshu - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001317
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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects : New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Bandiera, Oriana - 2009
Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155165
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Class Size Effects in Higher Education : Differences Across Stem and Non-Stem Fields
Kara, Elif - 2020
In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields. This study estimates the effect of class size on...
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