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The Real Effects of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Emissions : Evidence from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Yang, Lavender; Muller, Nicholas Z.; Liang, Pierre Jinghong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the real effects of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) on electric power plants in the United … States. Starting in 2010, the GHGRP requires both the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by facilities emitting more than … primary channel through which mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting programs affect firm behavior …
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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...
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College Choice, Private Options, and The Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education
Bound, John; Simon, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Previous measures of the incidence of public investment in higher education focus on the transfer to public college students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss potential general equilibrium effects on the private...
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Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students : Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment
Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from...
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Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in student to degree match
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...
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The Returns to College(s) : Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education
Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state...
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Why Don't Elite Colleges Expand Supply?
Blair, Peter Q.; Smetters, Kent A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead reducing admit rates. We show that straightforward reasons cannot explain this behavior. We propose a model where colleges compete on prestige, measured using relative selectivity or...
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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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"When Anything Can Happen" : Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making
DeLuca, Stefanie; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Boselovic, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short, flexible programs that tend to have low returns in the labor market. Prior literature emphasizes information deficits and financial constraints. We draw upon qualitative data...
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Test Scores and Self-Selection of Higher Education : College Attendance versus College Completion
Venti, Steven F. - 1981
As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint discrete-continuous utility maximization model of college attendance and college completion. The paper is motivated by the possibility that test scores are poor predictors of...
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