We estimate near-term returns to postsecondary diplomas, certificates, and associate's degrees awarded to adult students by Tennessee community colleges and public technology centers. We find that sub-baccalaureate credentials increase access to new industries, particularly health, and that...

This article analyzes a survey among 15 year-old adolescents that dropped out of the formal educational system before completing junior high. It is the first study that uses data on cognitive skills, self-perception of skills and expectations of future studies that were gathered when these...

We start by using various economic and pedagogical concepts to understand the specificities of MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) platforms. We then discuss how the private provision of MOOCs, seen as pure public goods, can be sustained. Based on the theory of multisided platforms, we analyse...

In this paper we construct a panel data set from 2000 to 2011 for the EU 28, studying the impact of education on the levels of software piracy in a country. When an aggregated analysis is made, e.g. considering all ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) levels, expenditure on...

Scientific articles reflect a lot about different forms of university and industry collaborations. Mostly they talk about knowledge transfer and innovation. However, it is also important to pay attention to the inhibiting factors of accepting interns and on the other side examine difficulties...

Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex...

Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from the compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect...

This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their performance is graded, and their grade correlates with their future income. Ex-ante, the policy maker chooses the optimal coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare....

Higher education has become increasingly international in the past decade as more and more students choose to study abroad, enrolled in foreign educational programs and institutions in their home country, or simply use the internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries....

En este trabajo se analiza la sobreeducación en el mercado laboral de las Trece Areas Metropolitanas usando la información de la Encuesta Continua de Hogares del segundo trimestre de 2006 y el método estadístico para identificar a los sobreeducados. Los resultados señalan que...