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Heterogeneous Returns to College Selectivity and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment

Seki, Mai - 2014

Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market

Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in … the first nationally representative survey of labor insertion of recent university graduates in Spain. By estimating a … find a higher likelihood of horizontal mismatch among graduates of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Pharmacy, and Languages …

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Early labor market outcomes of university graduates : does time to degree matter?

Aina, Carmen; Casalone, Giorgia - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 71 (2020), pp. 1-17

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High school and exam scores : does their predictive validity for academic performance vary with programme selectivity?

Silva, Pedro Luis; Sá, Carla; Biscaia, Ricardo; … - 2022

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting...

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The effects of academic probation on college success : regression discontinuity evidence from four Texas universities

Fletcher, Jason; Tokmouline, Mansur - 2017

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students a need to improve performance, very little is known about the use of this designation and the programs that accompany it on college success. This paper uses a regression...

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The eturns to college persistence for marginal students : regression discontinuity evidenced from university dismissal policies

Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas A. - 2016

We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings...

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College readiness, early post-secondary academic performance and the GED degree : evidence from Kentucky

Islam, Tommoy T. M.; Rouse, Kathryn - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 22 (2022) 1, pp. 67-98

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Overeducation and employment mismatch : wage penalties for college degrees in business

Li, Ishuan; Malvin, Mathew; Simonson, Robert - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 3, pp. 119-125

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