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Estimating a model of qualitative and quantitative education choices in France

Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2018

) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per …

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Centralized admission and the student-college match

Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016

Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...

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University selectivity, initial job quality, and longer-run salary

Weinstein, Russell - 2017

Using Baccalaureate and Beyond data, I study whether university quality, both absolute and relative to other … year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12% less if their university's regional rank is worse by 35 places …, conditional on absolute university quality. This effect disappears ten years after graduation. The results suggest initial job …

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What stops poor girls from going to college? : skill development and access to higher education in a developing country

Molina, Oswaldo; Santa María, Diego; Yamada, Gustavo - 2018

Although recent evidence suggests that the aggregate gender gap in access to Higher Education in Peru has been closed, differences in enrollment between the poor and the rich are still notably larger among girls. This paper explores the factors behind these gender differences in access to Higher...

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Differences by degree : evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...

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Skills, majors, and jobs : does higher education respond?

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - 2023

How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...

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Tracking when ranking matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

education programs in France. We find that 70% of the inequality in success in these exams between students from different …

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Do college admissions criteria matter? : evidence from discretionary vs. grade-based admission policies

Kamis, Rais; Pan, Jessica; Seah, Kelvin - 2022

in university and their labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique feature of the admissions system at a large university … performance in university as marginal students admitted through the regular route. However, they are significantly more likely to …

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Specialists or all-rounders : how best to select university students?

Silva, Pedro Luis - 2022

the labour market, the university chooses to use them as a criterion for selection alongside the mastery of more subject …

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College admission as a screening and sorting device

Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022

How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...

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