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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra
Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462901
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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … schooling serves as a pathway to occupational attainment, earnings appear to be more closely linked to a worker's occupation … than to the individual's level of schooling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269380
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than- perfect … selection and the limited international transferability of human capital to the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants: examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2008
In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a nationally-representative US data set and find that there is little difference between a measure of total years of education and measures for US and foreign-based years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270629
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271256
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born …. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … measures of the quality of schooling undertaken abroad. The results suggest that a higher quality of schooling acquired abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405723
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Economic gains for US states from educational reform
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407760
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The distributional effects of direct college costs
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321404
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The distributional effects of direct college costs
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living … vary by family income, parent education, race or gender. -- Schooling Costs ; Educational Attainment ; Financial Aid Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758410