Economics of Education Review
Volume 27, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 11
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Program design and student outcomes in graduate education
Jeffrey A. Groen, George H. Jakubson, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Scott Condie & Albert Y. Liu
Doctoral programs in the humanities and related social sciences are characterized by high attrition and long times to degree. In 1991 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched the Graduate Education... More
pp. 111-124
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The effects of over-education on earnings in the graduate labour market
Peter J. Dolton & Mary A. Silles
This paper uses a new survey of graduates from one large civil university in the UK to examine the determinants of over-education and its subsequent impact on labour market earnings. Multiple... More
pp. 125-139
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School attendance and district and school size
John T. Jones, Eugenia F. Toma & Ron W. Zimmer
The size of schools and districts in which they are located has become a salient policy issue in recent years. While consolidation of school districts and expanding high school size were in vogue... More
pp. 140-148
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Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques
Andrew Leigh & Chris Ryan
How much do returns to education differ across different natural experiment methods? To test this, we estimate the rate of return to schooling in Australia using two different instruments for... More
pp. 149-160
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In sickness and in health—Till education do us part: Education effects on hospitalization
Jacob Nielsen Arendt
This study provides the first estimates of the causal impact of education on hospitalization. It improves upon existing studies on health and education by using a larger data set and more efficient... More
pp. 161-172
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What makes a leader? Relative age and high school leadership
Elizabeth Dhuey & Stephen Lipscomb
Economists have identified a substantial adult wage premium attached to high school leadership activity. Unresolved is the extent to which it constitutes human capital acquisition or proxies for an... More
pp. 173-183
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The causal effect of graduating from a top university on promotion: Evidence from the University of Tokyo's 1969 admission freeze
Daiji Kawaguchi & Wenjie Ma
The strong correlation between having graduated from a selective college and success in the labor market has been robustly observed in many countries. There are two major explanations for this... More
pp. 184-196
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Who goes to graduate/professional school? The importance of economic fluctuations, undergraduate field, and ability
Kelly Bedard & Douglas A. Herman
This study examines the impact of fluctuations in entry-level labor market conditions on the graduate school enrollment decisions of newly minted undergraduate degree holders. Using repeated cross-... More
pp. 197-210
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Gains in standardized test scores: Evidence of diminishing returns to achievement
Donna Driscoll, Dennis Halcoussis & Shirley Svorny
In many states, standardized tests are used to hold schools accountable for student academic achievement. To motivate improvement in test scores, financial awards are given to teachers and... More
pp. 211-220
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The effects of class size on student grades at a public university
Edward C. Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon & Sean M. Christy
We model how class size affects the grade higher education students earn and we test the model using an ordinal logit with and without fixed effects on over 760,000 undergraduate observations from ... More
pp. 221-233
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Benefits of bilingualism: Evidence from Mormon missionaries
Devin G. Pope
Several studies have argued that learning a foreign language has the potential to increase the general cognitive ability and test scores of students. In this analysis, the Mormon missionary program... More
pp. 234-242
