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Improving College Access and Success for Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Large Need-based Grant Program

Fack, Gabrielle; Grenet, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using comprehensive administrative data on France’s single largest financial aid program, this paper provides new evidence on the impact of large-scale need-based grant programs on the college enrollment decisions, persistence and graduation rates of low-income students. We exploit sharp...

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Bertrand, Marianne; Black, Sandra; Jensen, Sissel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earning within that...

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College Diversity and Investment Incentives

Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...

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The Distributional Consequences of Diversity-Enhancing University Admissions Rules

Chan, Jimmy; Eyster, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper examines public attitudes towards university admissions rules by focusing on the imposition of the costs of racial diversity across majority citizens. High-income majority citizens, who tend to have better academic qualifications, favour more diversity under affirmative action, which...

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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...

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City Structure, Job Search and Labour Discrimination. Theory and Policy Implications

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We consider a search-matching model in which black workers are discriminated against and the job arrival rates of all workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are mainly driven by the racial preferences of households. There are two possible urban...

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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …

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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)

Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-reported mismatch and skill use. The theoretical foundations underling this measure allow identifying minimum and maximum skill …

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Mismatch Unemployment

Sahin, Aysegul; Song, Joseph; Topa, Giorgio; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher … unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … database covering the universe of onlineU.S. job advertisements. Mismatch across industries and occupations explains at most 1 …

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Social Contacts and Occupational Choice

Bentolila, Samuel; Michelacci, Claudio; Suarez, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

productive. Hence social contacts can generate mismatch between a worker’s occupational choice and their comparative productive …

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