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On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2011
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating the underlying business cycle. We show that, over the last decade, about...
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The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2012
experience earnings gains of about 10 percent relative to high school graduates with no college degree, conditional on employment …
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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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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Wages and Employment : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra J. - 2017
The basic canonical model fails to predict the aggregate college premium outside of the original sample period (1963-1987) or to account for the observed deviations in college premia for younger vs. older workers. This paper documents that these failings are due to mis-measurement of the...
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From Theory to Practice : Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work
Boudreau, Kevin - 2019
Young workers typically enter the professional labor market only after completing higher education. We investigate how earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were randomly assigned to 6-month work terms to begin...
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When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times
Cutler, David M. - 2014
Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been documented previously, the reasons why the effect of education on income, health...
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Efficiency Versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain : A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2014
Background. In Spain's "MIR" system of allocating residency training positions, medical school graduates are ranked … that country. Data. Our data included: a registry of the actual residency positions chosen by medical school graduates in … the 2012 MIR cycle; a 2012 post-MIR survey in which graduates made counterfactual choices as to what they would have …
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An Evaluation of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship's Effect on Phd Production at Non-Uncf Institutions
Prenovitz, Sarah - 2015
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) was established in 1988 to encourage underrepresented minority (URM) students to pursue PhD study with an eye towards entering academia. Fellows have completed PhDs at high rates relative to other students, but they are selected for their...
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Giving College Credit Where it is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes
Smith, Jonathan - 2015
We implement a regression discontinuity design using the continuous raw Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, which are mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively impacts college completion and subsequent exam taking....
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