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Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off after All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes and Inter-Generational Mobility
Lavy, Victor - 2018
We analyze in this paper the long term effect of a high school remedial education program, almost two decades after its implementation. We combine high school records with National Social Security administrative data to examine longer-term outcomes when students were in their early 30s. Our...
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Take Two! Sat Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps
Goodman, Joshua - 2018
Only half of SAT-takers retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority (URM) students. We exploit discontinuous jumps in retake probabilities at multiples of 100, driven by left-digit bias, to estimate retaking's causal effects. Retaking...
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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic performance at the university, happiness, physical and mental health, self-confidence, confidence in academic ability, and attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919864
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Can You Leave High School Behind?
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...
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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021
The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...
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How America Graduated from High School : 1910 to 1960
Goldin, Claudia - 2022
Human capital accumulation and technological change were to the twentieth century what physical capital accumulation was to the nineteenth century -- the engine of growth. The accumulation of human capital accounts for almost 60% of all capital formation and 28% of the per capita growth residual...
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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
Garthwaite, Craig - 2020
rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …
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Low Life Expectancy in the United States : Is the Health Care System at Fault?
Preston, Samuel H. - 2010
Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the...
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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States
Banks, James W.; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2021
This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of...
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Gains and Gaps : Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Bailey, Martha J. - 2011
We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. We find growing gaps between children from high- and low-income families in college entry, persistence, and...
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