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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10202 Dave E. Marcotte
The Returns to Education at Community Colleges: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey
Community colleges have long been recognized for their potential in providing access to post-secondary education for students of limited means. Indeed, the recent #FreeTuition movement is built on ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2019, 14 (4), 523-547.)
I21, I23, I26
10201 Sabrina Hahm
Jochen Kluve
Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data ...
(revised version published as 'Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes' in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (4), 425 - 559)
I21, I28, J24
10200 Nicholas W. Papageorge
Kevin Thom
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association 2020, 18 (3), 1351 - 1399)
I24, J24
10199 Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Subha Mani
Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325)
I25, J24, J44
10198 Deepti Goel
Ashwini Deshpande
Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India
Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste ...
(published as 'Social identity and perceived income adequacy' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 339-361)
J15, O15, P16
10196 Artjoms Ivlevs
Remittances and Informal Work
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190)
F24, J46, J61, R23, O17
10195 Louise Voldby Beuchert
Maria Knoth Humlum
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Nina Smith
The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement: Evidence of Disruption?
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 31-47.)
I21, J24
10194 Robert G. Valletta
Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage ...
(published in: C. R. Hulten and V. A. Ramey (eds.), Education, Skills, and Technical Change, Oxford University Press, 2018)
J31, J24, I23
10193 Michael R. Ransom
Aaron Phipps
The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major
In this paper we examine the occupational distribution of individuals who hold bachelor degrees in particular fields in the United States using data from the various waves of the National Survey of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 129-171)
I23, J24
10192 Massimo Anelli
The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2824 - 2868)
I21, I22, I23, I28, J24, J31
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