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Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates? Evidence from China

Huang, Mian - 2019

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their … preference for graduates studying in different regions to address the self-selection problem of college location. Empirical … results show that the graduates are significantly more likely to stay in where they attended college, to return to their …

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From Theory to Practice : Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work

Boudreau, Kevin - 2019

Young workers typically enter the professional labor market only after completing higher education. We investigate how earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were randomly assigned to 6-month work terms to begin...

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Geography's Role in Nurturing Postgraduate Students

Gillen, Jamie - 2014

In this commentary we encourage thinking about how to effectively nurture postgraduate students in geography. We offer some ideas and strategies for supervisors who mentor postgrads for careers in and beyond the academy. We also consider how supervisor-student relationships can take advantage of...

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Giving College Credit Where it is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes

Smith, Jonathan - 2015

We implement a regression discontinuity design using the continuous raw Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, which are mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively impacts college completion and subsequent exam taking....

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Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates

Kennan, John - 2015

are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …

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The Impact of International Students on US Graduate Education

Shih, Kevin - 2016

This paper examines whether international students affect domestic enrollment in graduate education, focusing on a unique boom and bust in international enrollment at US universities from 1995-2005. Increases in international students expand domestic enrollment. These expansions arise from...

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Alumni job networks at elite universities and the efficacy of affirmative action

Machado, Cecilia; Reyes, Germán; Riehl, Evan - 2022

We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative action at a large scale. Using employer-employee data, we show that a key benefit of attending the...

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Heterogeneous Returns to College Selectivity and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment

Seki, Mai - 2014

Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...

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Modeling College Graduation GPA Considering Equity in Admissions : Evidence from the University of Puerto Rico

Matos-Díaz, Horacio - 2014

the GGPA distribution increases to the extent that graduates exceed graduation required time …

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Los Egresados Y La Calidad De La Educación Superior Una Visión Desde Las Encuestas a Graduados (University Graduates and the Quality of Higher Education : An Approach from Graduate...

Jaramillo, Alberto - 2014

of researches on university graduates in processes of quality assessment in universities and programs. It recognizes the … lack of unanimity about the validity of survey results in order to verify the education quality and shows the importance of … graduates from Universidad EAFIT (Medellín) and Universidad de La Sabana (Bogotá), applied in 2002 and 2004, are displayed …

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