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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?
Lerman, Robert Irving - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
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 participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this …
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Can the United States expand apprenticeship? : lessons from experience
Lerman, Robert Irving - 2012
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
-secondary schooling enrollment. Average impacts reveal that the hefty beneficial educational outcomes quickly faded away. Heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940286
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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
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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What should Michigan be doing to promote long-run economic development?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009
I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921926
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Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"?
Neumark, David (contributor);  … - 2005
, tech prep, and internships/apprenticeships. For men there is quite a bit of evidence that STW program participation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095429
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675522
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Does universal preschool hit the target? : program access and preschool impacts
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2017
Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged preschoolers. This paper uses survey data on a recent cohort to explore the mediating influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621468