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Early impacts of college aid
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P.; … - 2015
We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and administrative records before and after the reform, we present...
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Early impacts of college aid
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P.; … - In: Economics of education review 63 (2018), pp. 154-166
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A képzési terület és a felsőoktatási intézmény hatása a fiatal diplomások munkaerő-piaci sikerességére a 2000-es évek végén
Varga, Júlia - 2010
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of … post-secondary credentials. Although the GED establishes cognitive equivalence on one measure of scholastic aptitude …
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Stability of college rankings : a study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data
Gartell, Marie - 2009
The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the...
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College quality and earnings in the Japanese labor market
Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Rev. March 11, 2003
The motivations underlying the pursuit of college prestige in Japan presumes a labor market that rewards workers according to the quality of the college that they attended. Yet, studies that examine the relationship between college quality and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with...
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Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic : the role of spatial distribution of universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - 2012
We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Why academic quality in higher education declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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