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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and cost
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015
socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376217
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Intended college attendance : evidence from an experiment on college returns and costs
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015
substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and … costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college …'s child, the two main behavioral outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338830
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Information heterogeneity and intended college enrollment
Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2014
substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps — specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an "information intervention", and find that were individuals to be provided with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404579
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Informing students about college : an efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018
information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … collected data from students prior to the information intervention and followed them for four consecutive years. We find … evidence that an information intervention increases students' application as well as their enrollment rates, in particular for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928550
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528336
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534003
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521174
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Trade-offs in choosing a college major
Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023
Recent empirical analyses reveal substantial differences in the choices of college majors between demographic and socio-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best documented and salient are the differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364698
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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
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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, Ryuichi - 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/10014083838