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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
known about either the efficacy or costs of these programs. This paper examines affirmative action in engineering colleges … lower-caste admits end up employed in engineering or advanced technical jobs. Finally, we find no evidence that the marginal …
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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 J. - 2017
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 movement. Later, a larger group of Historically Black Colleges and … Universities (HBCUs) expanded educational opportunities in engineering, computer science and other technical fields, "to prepare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948926
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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
Marx, Matt - 2015
When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement - incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing...
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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 - 2010
The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760417
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Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink : An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large...
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Targeted or Universal Coverage? Assessing Heterogeneity in the Effects of Universal Childcare
Kottelenberg, Michael - 2016
We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional effects of universal child care on two specific developmental outcomes. Our analysis uncovers substantial policy relevant heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to...
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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2007
This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778252
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The Rug Rat Race
Ramey, Garey - 2009
. We provide empirical support for our explanation with a comparison of trends between the U.S. and Canada, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156858
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142535
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Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities
Klaff, Daniel B.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2021
Our study is the first study that addresses the impact of collective bargaining coverage on salaries in academia for employees other than faculty. We use data from a 1997-98 study on the costs of staffing in higher education conducted by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239165