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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140
-invariant unobservable characteristics of students, we find that students who enroll in associate's degree programs in for-profit colleges … associate's degree students attend for an average of 2.6 years, this translates to a 4% return per year of education in a for …
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Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes
Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life … completing an internship while attending university. Employing longitudinal data from graduate surveys, we find positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884364
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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856494
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Estimating the rate of return to education in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195546
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096539
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196002
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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969261
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Scholars' physical appearance, research performance and feelings of happiness
Dilger, Alexander; Lütkenhöner, Laura; Müller, Harry - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2013
about their feelings of happiness. Later we asked students to evaluate the photographed persons' attractiveness, competence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986582
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Does working during higher education affect students’ academic progression?
Triventi, Moris - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 1-13
credits acquired by first-year university students in Italy. We discuss different contrasting hypotheses on the role of … on a representative sample of university students who were enrolled in the academic year 2002/03, after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906637
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Graduate unemployment in South Africa: A much exaggerated problem
Berg, Servaas van der; Broekhuizen, Hendrik van - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2012
Increasing reference in the media and public discussions to high and rising levels of graduate unemployment in the South African labour market has raised concern about the functionality of South Africa’s higher education system and the employability of the graduates that it produces. While...
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