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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kevin - 2006

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...

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Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

Lang, Kevin - 2012

/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

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How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions : The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

Papay, John P. - 2011

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future …-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression …-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income …

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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

Gihleb, Rania - 2016

, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …

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Educating Urban Children

Murnane, Richard J. - 2008

For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult today than it was several decades ago. Yet economic and social changes make performance improvement especially important today. Two quite different bodies of research provide...

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Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Murnane, Richard J. - 1999

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...

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Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments

Tyler, John H. - 1998

The General Educational Development (GED) credential has become the primary 'second chance' route to high school certification for school dropouts in the United States. Despite the widespread use of the GED, however, bias due to self-selection has limited our knowledge about the effects of the...

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The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

Murnane, Richard J. - 1995

Using data from two longitudinal surveys of American high school seniors, we show that basic cognitive skills had a larger impact on wages for 24-year-old men and women in 1986 than in 1978. For women, the increase in the return to cognitive skills between 1978 and 1986 accounts for all of the...

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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth : A Cautionary Tale of LATE

Barua, Rashmi - 2009

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Baker, Olesya - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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