Quality of higher education and earnings: Regression discontinuity evidence from the French Baccalaureate

An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has predominantly focused on the returns to the most selective universities. However, less is known about the extent to which these gains are realized for the academically marginal student who does not necessarily attend the most selective of institutions. In this paper, we address this question by exploiting the presence of the Baccalaur\'{e}at G\'{e}n\'{e}ral (or the General Baccalaureate), a degree that students in France must earn to graduate from secondary school and enroll in postsecondary institutions. The degree is awarded upon passing a series of national exams. Students can retake the exam in the same year but the standards for passing are higher in the first round. Our data links individual-level information on secondary and postsecondary education to labor market outcomes, allowing us to track the complete educational and professional paths of all students in our sample. We use a regression discontinuity design that compares the outcomes of students who marginally pass and fail the first round of the French Baccalaureate exam. Marginally passing increases the likelihood of attending a higher quality university and a STEM major. Threshold crossing also raises earnings by 13.6 percent at the age of 27 to 29. After ruling out other channels that could affect earnings, we conclude that increased access to higher quality postsecondary education leads to a significant earnings premium for academically marginal students

Evaluación de la eficacia de un programa de prevención del consumo de tabaco entre adolescentes

Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Leída el 25 de julio de 200

Ciudad y ambiente. Procesos y transformaciones en contextos urbanos

En este libro, se integran resultados de investigaciones, respecto a los reajustes asimétricos en relación rural-urbana, el proceso de gentrificación por gourmetización y las políticas de renovación de los aspectos públicos, los mecanismos ilegales de la ocupación del suelo para el desarrollo urbano y la participación ciudadana.Las ciudades entregan complejas problemáticas económicas, sociales, espaciales y ambientales vinculadas con el crecimiento urbano y la expansión de los asentamientos humanos. Por ello, la presente obra tiene como finalidad integrar diversas aproximaciones teórico-conceptuales y metodológicas que enmarcan la relación ciudad y ambiente, destacando los procesos y transformaciones que se desarrollan en contextos urbanos y configuran los desafíos ambientales actuales.Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Méxic