Achievement growth: International and U.S. state trends in student performance
2012 report from the Harvard Kennedy School on how the performance of U.S. public-school students compares domestically and internationally.
Education
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of education
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No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance
2012 study in Computers & Education on how Facebook and instant messaging can hurt college students’ grades.
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Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices
2011 study by the U.C. Berkeley and Princeton University in the Journal of Public Economics on how student debt can affect early career choices.
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Juvenile arrest and collateral educational damage in the transition to adulthood
2012 study from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University on the impact of an arrest on a teen’s educational trajectory.
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Do colleges and universities increase their region’s human capital?
2011 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published in the Journal of Economic Geography on the dynamics between higher education and local economies.
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Chasing the American dream: Recent college graduates and the Great Recession
2012 report from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers on patterns of employment, wages and difficulties in job-finding among recent graduates.
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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using earning data
2011 Princeton University working paper on the estimated monetary returns and highly selective college attendance in the United States.
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Early 2000s: A period of declining teen summer employment rates
2010 study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in Monthly Labor Review on teen summer-employment trends.
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Student loans: Do college students borrow too much — or not enough?
2012 study in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on the consequences and dynamics of assuming student loan debt.
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Gains and gaps: Changing inequality in U.S. college entry and completion
2011 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research on college enrollment and completion trends by income and gender.
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