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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

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of 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...

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State Investment in Higher Education : Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael - 2022

Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have...

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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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The Ged

Heckman, James J. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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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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Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from California Community Colleges

Stevens, Ann Huff - 2015

Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the returns to specific certificates and degrees. We estimate returns to CTE programs using administrative data from...

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Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education : Does College Remediation Work?

Bettinger, Eric; Long, Bridget - 2021

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses. However, little is known about the causal impact of...

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