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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Why are black-owned businesses less successful than white-owned businesses? : The role of families, inheritances, and business human capital

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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Parental resources and college attendance : evidence from lottery wins

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2016

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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … new estimation technique to address these estimation problems including the mechanical problems associated with repeated …-on-outcome peer effects (which would have been missed without our new estimation technique). Standard estimation methods fail to …

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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. - 2022

This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of...

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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075859

The impact of Covid-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the...

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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. - 2022

Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172843

The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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