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The success of universities is increasingly tied to student and program metrics, making the manipulation of such metrics both more prevalent and more consequential. This environment challenges universities’ truth-seeking missions, which are paramount to the value of universities. This paper...
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academic contributor to the labor market beauty earnings premium by sampling 1,800 social media profiles of students from … the labor market beauty premium for US White men, but not for students in China of either gender, White women, or …
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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flexibility to respond to market changes, attracting growing shares of students. Using a panel dataset, we examine the effects of …
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This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....
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Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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Do international students graduating from U.S. colleges and universities affect labor market outcomes of similarly … the labor supply of master's-level international students to the U.S. labor market in science, technology, engineering …
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This study analyzes how visa policies affect international students' transition to the U.S. labor market after the … completion of their studies. The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program permits international students to work in the United … process due to the binding visa cap. This study finds that the extension in the length of OPT terms for international students …
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