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Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies how the expansion in post-secondary education in 1990-2000 affected the university wage premium in Taiwan. We find that the university wage premium ...
Three Essays in Education Finance and Consumer Credit.
(2015)
Three Essays in Education Finance and Consumer Credit
by
Jonathan Hershaff
Chapter 1: “Moral Hazard and Lending: Evidence from the Federal Student Loan Market”
For fifteen years, there were two programs for originating ...
Essays on Individual and Collective Decision Making
(2023)
This dissertation contains three essays on individual and collective decision making. Understanding and modeling how individuals make choices is at the heart of economics. In chapter I, I empirically estimate the degree ...
Three Essays in the Public Finance of Education
(2017)
My dissertation addresses a variety of fiscal issues relating to the education sector in the United States. The funding of education in the Unities States is a complex topic which relies of a variety of programs at the ...
The Influence of Price Changes on Enrollment: Research Designs to Examine Price Responsiveness in Graduate and Professional Schools
(2023)
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students’ enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This ...
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
Essays on Generational Economic Links Between Childhood and Adulthood
(2021)
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...
Policy Issues in the Economics of Education: Lessons from Michigan
(2018)
In this dissertation, I apply administrative data from Michigan's public schools to address crucial policy questions in the economics of education. In Chapter I, I shed light on the persistent effects of attending high-quality ...