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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants : examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey

Akee, Randall (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 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...

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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

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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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 paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Welfare usage in the US : does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...

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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...

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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...

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Mentoring, educational services, and economic incentives : longer-term evidence on risky behaviors from a randomized trial

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program activities, complete high-school and enroll in...

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of … post-secondary credentials. Although the GED establishes cognitive equivalence on one measure of scholastic aptitude …

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Racial identity and education

Patacchini, Eleonora (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2006

We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test...

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