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Marchand, Joseph; Weber, Jeremy G. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
Whether improved local economic conditions lead to better student outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and will depend on how schools use additional revenues and how students and teachers respond to rising private sector wages. The Texas boom in shale oil and gas drilling, with its large and localized effects on wages and the tax base, provides a…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Fuels, Natural Resources, School Districts
Commonfund Institute, 2020
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Costs
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Mitchell, Jessica; Testa, Giuseppina; Sanchez Martinez, Miguel; Cunningham, Paul N.; Szkuta, Katarzyna – Research Evaluation, 2020
This article investigates the impact of tax incentives targeting young innovative firms and broader R&D tax incentives where effects on young firms are observed. It examines effects on R&D additionality, R&D wages, employment growth, turnover growth, and sales growth from innovative activities. It draws on academic literature and…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Research and Development, Financial Policy, Foreign Countries
Jacob M. Wertz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation contains three empirical papers that quantify how institutional status hierarchies in postgraduate education relate to professionals' employment and earnings outcomes. Chapter 1 examines the effects of postgraduate educational program status hierarchies on earnings among recipients of postgraduate professional degrees in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Income, Salaries, Employment
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Allison F. Gilmour; Roddy Theobald; Nathan Jones – Grantee Submission, 2023
Recruiting and retaining effective special educators is essential for improving the outcomes of students with disabilities, yet it remains one of the foremost challenges facing special education. In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the extent to which economic interventions -- such as bonuses, increased salaries, and loan…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
Michael Galperin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
I use rich administrative data and several quasi-experiments in Texas to study which students benefit most from college grant aid and why. For "extensive-margin" students, grant aid causes enrollment in college, and therefore has potentially large benefits relative to these students' no-college counterfactual. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, College Attendance, Financial Support
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Jayson Seaman; Jake Martin; Cindy L. Hartman; Andrew D. Coppens – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
Employees in the outdoor recreation sector account for 3.2% of the U.S. workforce, contributing to over $1.1T in national economic output. As awareness of the sector's economic strength has grown, interest in promoting outdoor recreation careers has expanded. Research on outdoor recreation careers has not kept pace with workforce development…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Career Pathways, Labor Force Development, Professional Personnel
American Association of University Women, 2019
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation's workers and our national economy. Women working full time in the U.S. are paid 82 cents to every dollar earned by men -- but it doesn't stop there. The consequences?of this gap?affect?women…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Salaries
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Apgar, Dawn – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
Unlike other disciplines, social work has made accreditation decisions about undergraduate and graduate programs independent of licensure examination pass rates of graduates. While education, regulation, and practice are heralded as the three pillars of social work, there have been few meaningful linkages between them. Despite recognition that…
Descriptors: Social Work, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Decision Making, Accreditation (Institutions)
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Turner, Julia A.; Turner, Sarah – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
While the direct impacts of minimum wage changes on employment have received considerable attention, these policy changes have the potential to impact skill attainment by changing the opportunity cost of college enrollment. Using institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students…
Descriptors: State Policy, Salaries, Costs, Outcomes of Education
Kathryn Riddinger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student affairs professionals play an integral role in supporting college students' mental health and well-being. Yet the current literature lacks research that specifically documents these phenomena within this set of professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic created additional mental health and well-being concerns that are worth empirically…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Mental Health, Well Being, College Students
Illinois State Board of Education, 2021
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is urged to submit a report to the General Assembly by December 31, 2021, with information on the reviewed areas and recommendations on how to streamline the school data reporting and collecting systems of the State of Illinois. ISBE supports more than 200 software applications that were created in…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Reports, Information Systems, Student Records
Smith, Akai Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The American workforce is currently experiencing an increased level of diversity in comparison to previous decades due to augmented representation of people of different races, socio-economic backgrounds and genders across sectors (Warner, 2014). However, there is one variable that has remained largely unchanged, the underrepresentation of African…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Organizational Culture, Career Development, College Faculty
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Galbraith, Quinn; Kelley, Heather; Groesbeck, Michael – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Racial equality has been of great importance to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as seen through various initiatives. However, in recent years, little research has been done regarding the racial wage gap in ARL libraries. Researchers used thirty-five years of raw ARL salary survey data to examine the wage gap between racial minorities…
Descriptors: Wages, Research Libraries, Racial Differences, Salaries
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Han, Yu; Chaudhury, Tasnuva; Sears, Greg J. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
Drawing on the "top-down" view of life satisfaction, this study investigates the influence of employee career resilience on life satisfaction and examines mediating effects of indicators of career success (i.e., salary, job level, job satisfaction) and work-related well-being (i.e., work stress) on this relationship. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Career Development, Well Being, Work Environment
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