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Aaronson, Daniel; Park, Kyung-Hong; Sullivan, Daniel – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2007
Fewer teenagers are participating in the labor force today than at any point since WWII. At just under 44 percent teen labor force participation is 15 percentage points below its peak in the late 1970s. The authors investigate the long-run decline in the work activity of young adults, and the acceleration of this trend during the last five years.…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Human Capital, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Chen, Chau-Kuang – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2005
Logistic and Cox regression methods are practical tools used to model the relationships between certain student learning outcomes and their relevant explanatory variables. The logistic regression model fits an S-shaped curve into a binary outcome with data points of zero and one. The Cox regression model allows investigators to study the duration…
Descriptors: Correlation, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Risk, Regression (Statistics)
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Show Me the Money: Alliance Analysis Finds That States Could Generate Millions More in Wages by Raising High School…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Reading Programs, Dropouts