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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278388
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The determinants of high school closures: lessons from longitudinal data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - 2009
students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269593
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Pulls of international student mobility
Kahanec, Martin; Králiková, Renáta - 2011
review the existing evidence and compile a longitudinal dataset covering inflows of international students into a number of … advanced economies. We then study the effects of various higher education policies on the inflow of international students … important tool to attract international students, and thus high-skilled migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282593
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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Why should state government invest in college education? An equilibrium approach for the US in 2000
Shields, Michael P. - 2008
This paper is a preliminary look at the benefits to states in the US of subsidizing college education. The benefits studies are the external benefits of college education on the earnings of both college graduates and those who have not graduated from college. In completing a college education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268729
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Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Webber, Douglas A.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2009
American undergraduate students. Our most important finding is that student service expenditures influence graduation and … persistence rates and their marginal effects are larger for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and more … lower income students. Put another way, their effects are largest at institutions that have lower current persistence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269633
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Alumni giving of business executives to the alma mater: Panel data evidence at a large metropolitan research university
Okunade, Albert A.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the estimation of an econometric model of gift-giving alumni business executives of a large public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274610
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262285
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Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262476
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272652