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What Factors Drive Individual Misperceptions of the Returns to Schooling in Tanzania? Some Lessons for Education Policy
Nikolov, Plamen - 2019
Evidence on educational returns and the factors that determine the demand for schooling in developing countries is … extremely scarce. Building on previous studies that show individuals underestimating the returns to schooling, we use two … surveys from Tanzania to estimate both the actual and perceived schooling returns and subsequently examine what factors drive …
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Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes
Humlum, Maria Knoth - 2014
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending grade 9 in the period 1986-2004. This allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056656
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Efficient Education Policy - A Second-Order Elasticity Rule
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, efficient education policy is characterized for a Ramsey-like scenario in which the government is constrained to use linear instruments. It is shown that education should be effectively subsidized if, and only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316238
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316744
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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647623
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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653629
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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017
How does the financial aid allocation mechanism affect student behavior? We provide a framework for quantifying the impact of financial aid on student debt, academic capital, and labor market outcomes. We specify and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796430
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The Returns to Elite College Education : A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980577
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The Returns to Elite College Education : A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983028
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128091