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Experimenting with Measurement Error : Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study
Gillen, Ben - 2015
Measurement error is ubiquitous in experimental work. It leads to imperfect statistical controls, attenuated estimated effects of elicited behaviors, and biased correlations between characteristics. We develop simple statistical techniques for dealing with experimental measurement error. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457151
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Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions : Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability
Chou, Tiffany - 2017
-income students. This implies that there is scope for a policy to redirect loan dollars - and therefore students - from low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455563
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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach
Boyd, Donald - 2012
one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the subject of interest (e.g., state assessments in three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460650
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Testing the Waters : Behavior across Participant Pools
Snowberg, Erik - 2018
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments with student participants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452940
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success : Evidence from California Administrative Data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 …, but the effects of the pandemic on enrollment in the California Community College system are mostly unknown and might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510593
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Varying Impacts of Letters of Recommendation on College Admissions
Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226137
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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
Card, David - 2000
Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471112
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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness
Higgins, Matthew - 1999
Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471565
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Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts
Deaton, Angus - 1999
People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater than $50,000. We explore this finding using both individual data and a panel of aggregate birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471654
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The Human Side of Structural Transformation
Porzio, Tommaso; Rossi, Federico; Santangelo, Gabriella V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. A newly compiled dataset of policy reforms supports an interpretation of these cohort effects as human capital. Through the lens of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660068