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Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

Winters, John V. - 2014

Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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Global skill partnerships : a proposal for technical training in a mobile world

Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...

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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market

Devereux, Paul J. - 2014

Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Human Capital Response to Globalization : Education and Information Technology in India

Shastry, Gauri Kartini - 2014

Recent studies have shown that trade liberalization increases skilled wage premiums in developing countries. This result suggests globalization may benefit elite skilled workers relatively more than poor unskilled workers, increasing inequality. This effect may be mitigated, however, if human...

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The return on human (STEM) capital in Belgium

Bijnens, Gert; Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2021

-skilled workers is decreasing. This is possibly linked with the increasing number of tertiary education graduates and at the same time …

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …

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