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Young workers typically enter the professional labor market only after completing higher education. We investigate how earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were randomly assigned to 6-month work terms to begin...
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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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We implement a regression discontinuity design using the continuous raw Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, which are mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively impacts college completion and subsequent exam taking....
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are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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We study the welfare and human-capital impacts of the configuration of on- and off-platform options in the context of Chile's centralized higher education platform, leveraging administrative data and two policy changes: an expansion of the number of on-platform slots by approximately 40% and the...
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This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce … by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are … choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to …
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Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across … districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores … for identifying parental valuation of measured school quality in the presence of strong neighborhood sorting. There is …
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participants in a two-sided matching market. We consider the market for medical school programs in Denmark, which uses a …
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&D employees, are significantly correlated with the number and quality of patents. However, DEI exhibits no link with future stock …
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