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Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from college admission cutoffs in Chile
Hastings, Justine S.; Neilson, Christopher A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Understanding how returns to higher education vary across degree programs is critical for effective higher education policy. Yet there is little evidence as to whether all degrees improve labor market outcomes, and whether they do so for students from different types of backgrounds. We combine...
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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity
Wolfe, Barbara L.; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
attending a college/university with a more diverse student body influences a variety of outcomes at Wave 4 (2007-08), including …
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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Institutions, Human Capital and Development
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Gallego, Francisco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
trend rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and that this break is greatest where the distance to a university … shrank most. There is no differential pre-1386 trend associated with the reduction in distance to a university, and there is … no break in trend in 1386 where university proximity did not change. These results are not affected by excluding cities …
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger; Link, Susanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010
Glewwe, Paul William; Hanushek, Eric; Humpage, Sarah D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students' years of completed schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn...
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Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa
Leibbrandt, Murray; Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
proportion of high school graduates who enroll in university and other forms of post-secondary education. Our results indicate … household income on university enrollment, though there continues to be an effect at the top of the income distribution. We also … find evidence of credit constraints on non-university forms of post-secondary enrollment. Counterfactual estimates indicate …
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Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico
Calderon, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; Giorgi, Giacomo De - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...
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