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This paper examines how the growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in graduate programs affects native … of foreign students on native educational outcomes differs dramatically across ethnic groups, and is particularly adverse … for white native men. There is a strong negative correlation between increases in the number of foreign students enrolled …
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In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple …, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students …
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students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …
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propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …
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-message coaching program – in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...
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the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …
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The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...
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Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the 1980's and 1990's, the ratio of earnings of university graduates to high school graduates increased sharply in the U.S. but fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found...
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There has been little analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on U.S. wage inequality, even though the presence of foreign-owned affiliates in the United States has arguably grown more rapidly in significance for the U.S. economy than trade flows. Using data across U.S....
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