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Propelled : The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare

Denning, Jeffrey - 2017

We estimate effects of the largest U.S. federal grant for college students using administrative data from Texas four-year public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity. Eligibility for additional grant aid significantly increases degree receipt and earnings beginning four years after...

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Engineering Educational Opportunity : Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science

Weinberger, Catherine - 2017

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide...

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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness

Eren, Ozkan - 2017

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school completion. We link the universe of case files of those who were convicted of a crime as a juvenile between 1996 and 2012 in a southern U.S. state to the public school...

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Any Press is Good Press? The Unanticipated Effects of Title Ix Investigations on University Outcomes

Lindo, Jason M. - 2018

Since 2011, when the landmark “Dear Colleague” letter declared that the Department of Education (DoE) would use equal-access requirements of federal law to remediate sexual assault on college campuses, 458 investigations have been opened. This letter was withdrawn in 2017 and it remains...

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School Spirit : Legislator School Ties and State Funding for Higher Education

Chatterji, Aaron - 2018

We explore a new mechanism to understand state funding for public colleges and universities by leveraging data on the educational experiences of state legislators, specifically if and where they received postsecondary education. Using novel, hand-collected data from 2002 through 2014, we provide...

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Job Tasks and the Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates

Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2018

accumulation are not informative because general work experience is similar by gender for our recent graduates …

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Are Recessions Good for Government Hires? The Effect of Unemployment on Public Sector Human Capital

Zhang, Congshan - 2018

persistent wage effect of entering government employment during recessions for recent college graduates and other new employees …

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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

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Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education : Does College Remediation Work?

Bettinger, Eric; Long, Bridget - 2021

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses. However, little is known about the causal impact of...

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High School Graduation, Performance and Earnings

Weiss, Andrew M. - 2021

. However, we do not find that high school graduates have a comparative advantage on production jobs requiring more training …, nor, in the PSID sample, are high school graduates assigned to jobs requiring more training. Finally, we find that the … the sorting model of education provides a better explanation for the higher wages of high school graduates than does the …

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