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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
Many countries mandate affirmative action in university admissions for traditionally disadvantaged groups. Little is … in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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“If You Compete with Us, We Shan't Marry You” the (Mary Paley and) Alfred Marshall Lecture
Pande, Rohini; Roy, Helena - 2023
Cambridge University, where Paley became one of the first women to take the Tripos exam and the first female lecturer in …
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Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India
Oster, Emily F. - 2010
Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling … localized these impacts are; this has implications for understanding how quickly information about these jobs diffuses. We use … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we …
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Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014
Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062615
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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title Ix to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Malamud, Ofer - 2010
We examine whether higher education is a causal determinant of geographic mobility using variation in college attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify both educational attainment and veteran status among...
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Friends in High Places
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U.S. politicians. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as well as common seat locations on the chamber floor, are consistent predictors of voting behavior. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137309
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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model
Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010
The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137733
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The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
Avery, Christopher - 2010
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to provide college counseling to high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at...
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