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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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Role of Education in Women Empowerment and Development : Issues and Impact

Shetty, Sowjanya; Hans, V. Basil - 2015

educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. When women who contribute almost half of the population … access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field … of women's education in India. Women have so much unexplored potential which has never been tapped. As education is both …

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A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education

Ritzen, Jo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Inequality in earned wages is in our western society on the increase. Social mobility is on the decrease. The contribution of education to equality of opportunity is decreasing, because education adapts more slowly to the increasing complexities of our societies than the home and social...

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Exploring the Difference between English Placement Instruments and Academic Performance of First-Time, Two-Year College Students

Zentner, Aeron; Homestead, Steven; Covit, Raissa; … - 2017

The focus of the study was to determine if a difference existed with student academic level placement when utilizing traditional placement exams versus using high school performance metric multiple measure placement. Additionally, the study explored academic performance outcomes between similar...

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Estimating Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to College Education for Academically Marginal Students : Evidence from the College Enrollment Quota Policy in South Korea

Kim, Taehoon - 2020

This study attempts to estimate pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to college education for academically marginal students in Korea. The Korean government limits the number of admission slots at each college by assigning a binding quota for each year. An increase in the quota admits more...

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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment

Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...

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Tuition fees and academic (in)activity in higher education : how did students adjust to the abolition of tuition fees in Germany?

Berens, Johannes; Henao, Leandro; Schneider, Kerstin - 2024

Studiensemestern berücksichtigen. Die Studierenden an der staatlichen Hochschule haben sich zwar nicht für weniger Prüfungen angemeldet …

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Learning from the Test : Raising Selective College Enrollment by Providing Information

Goodman, Sarena - 2013

In the last decade, five U.S. states adopted mandates requiring high school juniors to take a college entrance exam. In the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores high enough to qualify for selective schools....

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Attainment and gender equality in higher education : evidence from a large scale expansion

Caner, Asena; Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2019

We examine the dramatic expansion in the Turkish higher education system during 2006-2008, which resulted in the establishment of 41 new public universities and a 60% increase in the number of available slots. Using the variation in the exposure intensity of expansion across cohorts and regions,...

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Dual-credit courses and the road to college : experimental evidence from Tennessee

Hemelt, Steven W.; Schwartz, Nathaniel L.; Dynarski, … - 2019

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized controlled trial of the effects of dual-credit...

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