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Grads on the go : measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - 2022

This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....

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College openings and local economic development

Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022

We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...

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Are universities important for explaining unequal participation in student mobility? : a comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Bastianelli, Elena; Blasko, Zsuzsa - 2020

uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …

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"Workhorses of opportunity" : regional universities increase local social mobility

Howard, Greg; Weinstein, Russell - 2022

Regional public universities educate approximately 70 percent of college students at four-year public universities and an even larger share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They aim to provide opportunity for education and social mobility, in part by locating near potential students....

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Implications of the Polish 1999 administrative reform for regional socio-economic development

Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...

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Humans versus Chatbots : scaling-up behavioral interventions to reduce teacher shortages

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; … - 2023

Empirical results in economics often stem from success in controlled experimental settings, but often fail when scaled up. This study presents a behavioral intervention and a scalable equivalent aimed at reducing teacher shortages by motivating high school students to pursue an education degree....

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The legacy lead deposition in soils and its impact on cognitive function in preschool-aged children in the United States

Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019

Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...

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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

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