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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

Dale, Stacy - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection

Kirkebøen, Lars - 2014

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...

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Earning your CAP : A Comprehensive Analysis of The University of Texas System's Coordinated Admissions Program

Andrews, Rodney J. - 2017

The competitive application process is the traditional path to gain access to selective public universities. There is little research on alternative pathways to gain access to selective public universities. In this manuscript, we use the fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the impact...

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The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access

Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate … Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit …

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The Effects on Income of Type of College Attended

Solmon, Lewis C. - 1973

The effects of particular attributes of colleges on the subsequent earnings of individuals who attend are much discussed but rarely studied systematically. Here we seek to compare the earnings patterns of people attending different types of colleges. The classification of colleges used in this...

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Uncertainty about Future Income : Initial Beliefs and Resolution During College

Gong, Yifan - 2019

expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income … uncertainty is influenced by factors such as college GPA and college major, and also examine why much income uncertainty remains …

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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model

Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010

The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...

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The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Fryer, Roland G. - 2007

Until the 1960s, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were practically the only institutions of higher learning open to Blacks in the US. Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s HBCU matriculation was associated...

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Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

Lang, Kevin - 2012

Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey, we examine the effect on earnings of obtaining certificates/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of institution do not gain from earning a certificate. However,...

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Erfolgsfaktoren für Unternehmensausgründungen aus der Wissenschaft : Success factors for academic spin-offs

Hemer, Joachim (contributor) - 2006

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