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support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …
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about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …
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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …
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association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …
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suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …
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