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Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020

An important feature of post-secondary schooling is the experimentation that accompanies sequential decision-making. Specifically, by entering college, a student gains the option to decide at a future time whether it is optimal to remain in college or to drop out, after resolving uncertainty...

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The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation : A Survey

Aina, Carmen - 2018

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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018

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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Aina, Carmen - 2019

. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family …This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and …

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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey

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Spillovers in Education Choice

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter - 2017

This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and overcome the identification challenges of estimating...

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Rethinking Education Choices : The Effect of Surveys

Facchinello, Luca - 2019

Can surveys affect human capital investments? This paper examines whether individual education choices and outcomes are affected by a survey posing questions related to investments, performance, preferences, and expectations. We have administrative data for the whole Swedish population to which...

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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction

Francesconi, Marco - 2016

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Locus of control and human capital investment decisions : the role of effort, parental preferences and financial constraints

Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert János - 2020

are heterogenous: LoC has a significant association with dropout age, high school graduation and college application plans …, using PDS lasso to exploit high-dimensional data. While LoC is not significantly associated with graduation from high school … once we use exogenous controls, it correlates strongly with dropout age and college attendance even if we take into account …

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