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Loans for Higher Education: Does the Dream Come True?
Rau, Tomás; Rojas, Eugenio; Urzúa, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969251
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Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large … feedback, increased safety, and improved collaboration. The results show that school size is an important factor in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969286
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Going into the Affordable Care Act: Measuring the Size, Structure and Performance of the Individual and Small Group Markets for Health Insurance
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will dramatically alter health insurance markets and the sources through which individuals obtain coverage. As the ACA is implemented, it is essential to monitor the intended and the unintended consequences of these regulations. To evaluate the changes in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969297
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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886181
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890110
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Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Owens, Emily G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2001, amendments to the Higher Education Act made people convicted of drug offenses ineligible for federal financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950693
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The Problem of the Uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called "self-insurance" and "self-protection", including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950729
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950793
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Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Shertzer, Allison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In the early twentieth century, education legislation was often passed based on arguments that new laws were needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950834
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The Evolution of Charter School Quality
Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Baude, Patrick L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950856