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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137733
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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
Dale, Stacy Berg - 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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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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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem
Dobbie, Will - 2009
Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing : Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2008
probability of receiving a high school diploma by 5 to 10 percentage points, reduces annual income as a young adult by $1,000 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772447
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Is the Ged an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
Tyler, John H. - 2008
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of taking the quot;GED pathquot; to postsecondary...
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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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Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
Heckman, James J. - 2010
internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2010
A long-standing issue in the literature on education is whether marginal returns to education fall as education rises. If the population differs in its rate of return, a closely related question is whether marginal returns to higher education fall as a greater fraction of the population enrolls....
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