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Title: Economic Essays on Adult Students
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1. Shetty, Sandeep
Economic Essays on Adult Students
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Arizona, 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): College Degree; College Education; College Enrollment

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Chapter 2 analyzes the pecuniary returns to returning adults using the National Longitudinal Youth Survey of 1979 (NLSY79). I find 10-20% returns to returning adults across different education degrees. I also find that the post-return experience premium is higher for returners relative to non-returners. Chapter 3 analyzes the degree of persistence or state dependence in enrollment behavior of adult students using NLSY data from 1989-1994 and dynamic panel estimation methods. The results suggest that state dependence effects exist with respect to the previous enrollment incidence for men and women. For men I find that about 20% of the observed persistence in the enrollment probability is accounted for by state-dependence, as compared with roughly 36% for women.
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Shetty, Sandeep. Economic Essays on Adult Students. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Arizona, 2013.