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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2019
Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052745
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The returns to education at community colleges : new evidence from the education longitudinal survey
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016
Community colleges have long been recognized for their potential in providing access to post-secondary education for … years ago. In the meantime, the market for higher education has changed drastically, and the Great Recession and economy of … the evidence on the employment and earnings effects of community college education. I study the experiences of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532313
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The return to college : selection and dropout risk
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014
This paper studies the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. We develop a quantitative model of college choice with uncertain graduation. Departing from much of the literature, we model in detail how students progress through college. This allows us to parameterize the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424979
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College expansion and the marginal returns to education : evidence from Russia
Belskaya, Olga; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Posso, Christian - 2014
This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in … policies targeting the expansion of higher education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462897
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How risky is college investment?
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015
This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479348
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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338707
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How risky is college investment?
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015
This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473162
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172
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Is the return to education the same for everybody? : while a four-year college degree is financially beneficial for most people, it is not necessarily the best option for everyone
Webber, Douglas A. - 2014
lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421881
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163502