Showing 1 - 10 of 446
data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being … students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910738
volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135633
This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117829
Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118268
College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance … graduates to estimate how three different measures of credit status affect college attainment and completion rates. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103483
under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty on education costs and future returns. Students, applying a learning by … - students' characteristics, abilities and behavior; parental background and family networks; characteristics of the tertiary … resulting from the encompassing analysis is to provide an all-inclusive orientation activity for students, before they enroll at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923206
We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925512
We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all … the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying for their students irrespective of their study place. On average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926695
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862485
Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867159