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quality ; teacher labor markets ; education …
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Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …
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Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly correlated with the skill level of women. The age at school enrolment and therefore the age at graduation depends on the month of birth. Children born before the cut-off date start...
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The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide … higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for the willingness to pay for the consumption value of a particular type … of higher education. Even when controlling for ability selection, we find on US data that Liberal Arts graduates were …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …
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within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases …
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