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model incorporates tuition, applications, admissions and enrollment as the joint outcome from a subgame perfect Nash … only noisy measures of student ability and set up tuition and admissions policies to compete for more able students. The … equilibrium. I estimate the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY 97 data, via a three-step estimation procedure to …
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, applications, admissions and enrollment are joint outcomes from a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium. I estimate the structural … only noisy measures of student ability, choose tuition and admissions policies to compete for more able students. Tuition … enrollment can be increased by expanding the supply of colleges, and then to assess the importance of various measures of student …
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applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error … models describe mappings from a latent distribution to an observed distribution. The identification and estimation of … developments greatly broaden economic applications of measurement error models. This paper provides an accessible introduction of …
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enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative … school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German … Mikrozensus. Estimates suggest that enrollment in Advanced Schools increased by about six percent due to the fee abolition, where …
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enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative … school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German … Mikrozensus. Estimates suggest that enrollment in Advanced Schools increased by about six percent due to the fee abolition, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566544
Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the cohort-specific effects of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. While cohorts born after the earthquake were considerably larger, the adverse...
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Die Qualität der Bildung und nicht die Zahl an Bildungsjahren ist entscheidend für das Wirtschaftswachstum eines Landes. Studien deuten außerdem darauf hin, dass es vor allem die naturwissenschaftlichen Fächer und mathematischen Spitzenleistungen sind, die entscheidend zur wirtschaftlichen...
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determinants such as social class, maternal unemployment, extra private tuition, and working part-time have differential effects …
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We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable...
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-ranked degree program. Regression discontinuity estimates exploiting an admissions threshold unknown to applicants show that access … to this online option substantially increases overall enrollment in formal education, expanding the pool of students …
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