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Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this...

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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education …

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The Effect of College Applications on Enrollment

Smith, Jonathan - 2016

This article investigates determinants of the number of four-year colleges to which students apply and how the number of applications affects their probabilities of enrollment. To estimate the effect on enrollment, I use a novel instrument: the adoption rate of the Common Application near a...

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Ova and Out : Using Twins to Estimate the Educational Returns to Attending a Selective College

Smith, Jonathan - 2013

Research has shown that attending a relatively selective four-year college over a less selective alternative is positively related to bachelor's degree completion. This paper revisits that question with a novel data-set of over 11,000 sets of twins in the United States and information on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078742

Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2021

-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224745

Returns to different postsecondary investments : institution type, academic programs, and credentials

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a monolith. In reality …, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is highly differentiated, with a variety of options that differ by … remedial education. In this Chapter, we review the literature on the returns to these different types of higher education …

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Which colleges increase voting rates?

Bell, D'Wayne; Holbein, John B.; Imlay, Samuel J.; … - 2024

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies systematically by the college's attributes (e.g. increasing with...

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Do STEM Students Vote?

Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

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A new measure of college quality to study the effects of college sector and peers on degree attainment

Smith, Jonathan; Stange, Kevin - 2015

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Ova and out: Using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college

Smith, Jonathan - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 166-180

Research has shown that attending a relatively selective four-year college over a less selective alternative is positively related to bachelor's degree completion. This paper revisits that question with a novel dataset of over 11,000 sets of twins in the United States and information on colleges...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702984