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The Effects of Local Industrial Pollution on Students and Schools

Persico, Claudia - 2019

Using detailed education data between 1996-2012 from the state of Florida, we examine whether pollution from local Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) sites affects student achievement and high stakes accountability school rankings. Using event study and difference-in-differences designs, we compare...

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The impact of Covid-19 related school policies on students in their final high school years

Sandner, Malte; Anger, Silke; Bernhard, Sarah; … - 2021

This paper sheds light on the impact of the COVID-19 policy measures on a wide set of career expectations, occupational beliefs, and well-being of high-school students in their final grades. For this purpose, we use a unique panel data collection, which surveyed around 6,000 students in their...

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The College Premium, College Noncompletion, and Human Capital Investment

Athreya, Kartik - 2015

While there has been a substantial increase in the return to college (the college premium), college attainment has stagnated. We show that these facts can be reconciled by allowing for uncertainty in college payoffs, in particular around college completion and earnings, with borrowing. With...

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Chapter 8. Student Loans and Repayment : Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Lochner, L.; Monge-Naranjo, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 397-478). 2016

Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the USA, student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent...

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Student loans and repayment : theory, evidence and policy

Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2014

Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...

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The Effects of Student Loans on the Provision and Demand for Higher Education

Azuero, Rodrigo - 2018

We characterize the outcomes of the tertiary education market in a context where borrowing constraints bind, there is a two-tier college system operating under monopolistic competition in which colleges differ by the quality offered and returns to education depend on the quality of the school...

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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success

Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human capital development - by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents, we explore...

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What works? : interventions aimed at reducing student dropout in higher education

Ibsen, Kristoffer Holst Kroustrup; Rosholm, Michael - 2024

High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

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Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020

Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...

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Learning intensity effects in students' mental and physical health : evidence from a large scale natural experiment in Germany

Hofmann, Sarah; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2017

In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS … vitality and on emotional balance. We also observe significant impacts on self-assessed general physical health. …

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