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The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education: MOOCs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education

Hoxby, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

I consider how online postsecondary education, including massive open online courses (MOOCs), might fit into … economically sustainable models of postsecondary education. I contrast nonselective postsecondary education (NSPE)in which … education (HSPE) in which institutions invest in students in return for repayments much later in life. The analysis suggests …

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What High-Achieving Low-Income Students Know About College

Hoxby, Caroline; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Previous work (Hoxby and Avery 2014) shows that low-income higher achievers tend not to apply to selective colleges despite being extremely likely to be admitted with financial aid so generous that they would pay less than they do to attend the non-selective schools they usually attend. The...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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You Get a Book! Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements

Garthwaite, Craig L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the economic effects of endorsements. In the publishing sector, endorsements from the Oprah Winfrey Book Club are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without increasing the market size. The endorsements decrease aggregate adult...

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College Access, Initial College Choice and Degree Completion

Goodman, Joshua; Hurwitz, Michael; Smith, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The relatively low degree completion rate of U.S. college students has prompted debate over the extent to which the problem is attributable to the students or to their choice of colleges. Estimating the impact of initial college choice is confounded by the non-random nature of college selection....

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Marginal Pricing and Student Investment in Higher Education

Hemelt, Steven W.; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines the effect of marginal price on students’ educational investments using rich administrative data on students at Michigan public universities. Students facing zero marginal price for credits above the full-time minimum (i.e., 12 credits) attempt and complete about the same...

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The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Dimmock, Stephen G.; Weisbenner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Charitable donations are an important revenue source for many institutions of higher education. We explore how … overall donations to higher education - and especially capital donations for university endowments or for buildings- are …

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Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Washington, Ebonya L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) has been called one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, having generated dramatic increases in black voter registration across the South. We show that the expansion of black voting rights in some southern states brought...

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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Branch, Gregory F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Although much has been written about the importance of leadership in the determination of organizational success, there is little quantitative evidence due to the difficulty of separating the impact of leaders from other organizational components - particularly in the public sector. Schools...

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Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We examine effects of state-level job losses on student achievement. Losses to 1% of the working-age population decrease eighth-grade math scores by .076 standard deviations, with consistently negative but less precise effects on eighth-grade reading and on fourth-grade math and reading. Effects...

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