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William E. Even; Takashi Yamashita; Phyllis A. Cummins – Grantee Submission, 2023
Using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, this paper compares the earnings premium and employment share of jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) across 11 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results reveal that the STEM wage premium…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Wages, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
Kabay, Sarah; Weiland, Christina; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Grantee Submission, 2020
Though there is an expanding field of research on public prekindergarten, there is a relatively little comprehensive investigation into what public prekindergarten costs. We address some of the absences in the literature by analyzing public-sector expenditures for the city of Boston's public prekindergarten program, a particularly high-quality…
Descriptors: Costs, Preschool Education, Public Schools, Expenditure per Student
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kristian L. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Public pension systems in many U.S. states face large funding short-falls, and policymakers have considered moving toward defined contribution (DC) pension structures in the interest of reducing the likelihood of future shortfalls. Concerns exist, however, that such changes might increase levels of employee turnover. The empirical evidence on the…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Labor Turnover, Public Sector, Employees