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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms

Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2021

Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students’ short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...

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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success

Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human capital development - by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents, we explore...

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The Positional Value of Education in the Americas : Dynamics of Inequality in Labor Market Returns under Educational Expansion, 2000-2019

Ceron, Francisco; Chauvel, Louis - 2022

The article examines how the labour market value of education has changed in the context of the expansion of higher education. However, one drawback is to understand how it generates differences between high and low skilled labour markets, particularly in contexts of high inequality and...

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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?

Doty, Elena; Kane, Thomas J.; Patterson, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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Effects of peer groups on the gender-wage gap and life after the MBA : evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers

Thomas, Mallika - 2024

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …

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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …

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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment

Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

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