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The Contribution of Foreign Master's Students to US Start-Ups

Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this paper, we estimate the effect of increasing the share of foreign-born Master graduates on the creation of innovative start-ups in the US. We combine information on international students graduating from Master's programs by university cohort with data on start-ups created in the US...

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Dissertation Paths : Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function

Angrist, Joshua D.; Diederichs, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how … advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly … a measure of advisors' own research output. Aggregate student research output appears to scale linearly with graduate …

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Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education : Does College Remediation Work?

Bettinger, Eric P. - 2005

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately … it affect their educational progress? This project addresses these critical questions by examining the effects of math …

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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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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Boomerang College Kids : Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence

Albanesi, Stefania; Gihleb, Rania; Zhang, Ning - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Labor market outcomes for young college graduates have deteriorated substantially in the last twenty five years, and more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation cohort was 9%, whereas it rose to 12% for the 2013 graduation...

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Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2016

Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This...

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Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates Following the Great Recession

Abel, Jaison R. - 2016

Though labor market conditions steadily improved following the Great Recession, underemployment among recent college graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. In this paper, we take a closer look at the jobs held by underemployed college graduates in the early...

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Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools

Hoekstra, Mark - 2016

Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection...

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Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2016

We draw on population-level administrative data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences...

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The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests

Diamond, Rebecca - 2016

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students who have "a bad test day," but do not to discriminate based on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new...

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