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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870162
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Timing of college enrollment and family formation decisions
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; … - 2014
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236447
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HOPE for community college students : the impact of merit aid on persistence, graduation, and earnings
Welch, Jilleah G. - In: Economics of education review 43 (2014), pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516819
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The Effects of an Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148097
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The Effects of an Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462929
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Gender separation and academic achievement in higher education : evidence from a natural experiment in Iran
Kamal, Zahra - 2021
single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’ achievement. Despite the vast yet inconclusive literature on single …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …-medium-ability male students performing significantly better in all-male classrooms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619812
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Evaluating the Success of Educational Policy in Mexican Higher Education
Mar-Molinero, Cecilio; Rodríguez-Regordosa, Herberto; … - 2015
State support in Higher Education (HE) is often justified on the grounds that HE is important for the development of the country. However, little analysis is normally done in order to assess the impact of education quality initiatives. The Mexican government has been engaging in a policy of HE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137014
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Vignoles, Anna - 2016
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434013
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel S.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316869
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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362018