Rajeev Darolia
Biographic Data
| ID | 255870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajeev Darolia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajeev |
| FAMILY NAME | Darolia |
| SIGNATURE | DAROLIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates
Apprenticeships in the United States: Emerging Opportunities and Evidence Gaps
The data that support the findings of this study are available in the Harvard Dataverse at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/H1Q0HM. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: Department of Labor Apprenticeship reports (https://www.dol.gov/), National Center for Education Statistics (https://nces.ed.gov/), and ApprenticeshipUSA data dashboards (https://www.apprenticeship.gov/)
The Dynamics and Measurement of High School Homelessness and Achievement
How school districts measure homelessness among their students has implications for accountability and funding, as well as for supporting student success. Yet, measuring homelessness among high school students is challenging because students move in and out of experiencing it. Using administrative student-level data from a mid-sized public school district in the southern United States, we show that different commonly used procedures to measure wh…
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools
Numerous institutions, such as the police, public schools, legislatures, and the courts face criticism for a lack of diversity and representation. According to various political theorists, the lack of representation of marginalized groups in public institutions worsens citizen attitudes. In response, some advocate for increasing passive representation within public institutions. However, different schools of thought exist about whether increasing…
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance
We propose a simple model of how opioids in a community can impact the educational outcomes of children based on both the extent of exposure to opioids in the community and on the child’s vulnerability to any given level of exposure. We then use national data to document where and how the opioid crisis has intersected with students’ performance on standardized test scores in the U.S., focusing particularly on rural communities. Finally, we estima…
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic
We provide a brief orientation to the articles that comprise this volume, which is an effort to understand the consequences of the opioid epidemic in a variety of societal and community domains. These domains include child welfare, living arrangements, education, food insecurity, housing, and public budgets, and they are often paid scant attention compared to research that focuses on the direct effects of opioid use. We give an overview of the ar…
Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment
Previous research has documented the negative consequences of exposure to food insecurity over the early childhood period in terms of health and cognitive and behavioral outcomes, but less research has explored the consequences of exposure to food insecurity at other points in childhood. We examine the association between food insecurity during adolescence and educational attainment. We begin by exploring a conceptual framework for the potential …
Labor market returns to a prison GED
Adolescent food insecurity and risky behaviors and mental health during the transition to adulthood
Assessing the College Financial Aid Work Penalty
Working has become commonplace among college students in the United States; however, this activity can have unexpected financial consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid some students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents for each marginal dollar of income. In this article, I document this college financial aid “work penalty” and discuss the related incentives for some college students to reduce their inc…
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment: Do Employers Prefer Workers
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
The Economics of Parenting, Self-esteem and Academic Performance: Theory and a Test
This paper develops a theory about how signals sent to a child by an altruistic parent affect the child's self-esteem, effort and long-term performance when the parent has better information about child ability than the child does. We carry out OLS, 2SLS and 3SLS estimations of our model on a sample of 651 college students. Our results show that some complementary actions before college, such as parental praise, foster academic achievement above …
Adolescent food insecurity and risky behaviors and mental health during the transition to adulthood
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment: Do Employers Prefer Workers
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment
Previous research has documented the negative consequences of exposure to food insecurity over the early childhood period in terms of health and cognitive and behavioral outcomes, but less research has explored the consequences of exposure to food insecurity at other points in childhood. We examine the association between food insecurity during adolescence and educational attainment. We begin by exploring a conceptual framework for the potential …
The Dynamics and Measurement of High School Homelessness and Achievement
How school districts measure homelessness among their students has implications for accountability and funding, as well as for supporting student success. Yet, measuring homelessness among high school students is challenging because students move in and out of experiencing it. Using administrative student-level data from a mid-sized public school district in the southern United States, we show that different commonly used procedures to measure wh…
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic
We provide a brief orientation to the articles that comprise this volume, which is an effort to understand the consequences of the opioid epidemic in a variety of societal and community domains. These domains include child welfare, living arrangements, education, food insecurity, housing, and public budgets, and they are often paid scant attention compared to research that focuses on the direct effects of opioid use. We give an overview of the ar…
Assessing the College Financial Aid Work Penalty
Working has become commonplace among college students in the United States; however, this activity can have unexpected financial consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid some students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents for each marginal dollar of income. In this article, I document this college financial aid “work penalty” and discuss the related incentives for some college students to reduce their inc…
The Economics of Parenting, Self-esteem and Academic Performance: Theory and a Test
This paper develops a theory about how signals sent to a child by an altruistic parent affect the child's self-esteem, effort and long-term performance when the parent has better information about child ability than the child does. We carry out OLS, 2SLS and 3SLS estimations of our model on a sample of 651 college students. Our results show that some complementary actions before college, such as parental praise, foster academic achievement above …
The Economics of Parenting, Self-esteem and Academic Performance: Theory and a Test
This paper develops a theory about how signals sent to a child by an altruistic parent affect the child's self-esteem, effort and long-term performance when the parent has better information about child ability than the child does. We carry out OLS, 2SLS and 3SLS estimations of our model on a sample of 651 college students. Our results show that some complementary actions before college, such as parental praise, foster academic achievement above …
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment: Do Employers Prefer Workers
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
Assessing the College Financial Aid Work Penalty
Working has become commonplace among college students in the United States; however, this activity can have unexpected financial consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid some students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents for each marginal dollar of income. In this article, I document this college financial aid “work penalty” and discuss the related incentives for some college students to reduce their inc…
Adolescent food insecurity and risky behaviors and mental health during the transition to adulthood
Labor market returns to a prison GED
Race, representation, and policy attitudes in U.S. public schools
Numerous institutions, such as the police, public schools, legislatures, and the courts face criticism for a lack of diversity and representation. According to various political theorists, the lack of representation of marginalized groups in public institutions worsens citizen attitudes. In response, some advocate for increasing passive representation within public institutions. However, different schools of thought exist about whether increasing…
The Opioid Crisis and Educational Performance
We propose a simple model of how opioids in a community can impact the educational outcomes of children based on both the extent of exposure to opioids in the community and on the child’s vulnerability to any given level of exposure. We then use national data to document where and how the opioid crisis has intersected with students’ performance on standardized test scores in the U.S., focusing particularly on rural communities. Finally, we estima…
The Social and Community Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic
We provide a brief orientation to the articles that comprise this volume, which is an effort to understand the consequences of the opioid epidemic in a variety of societal and community domains. These domains include child welfare, living arrangements, education, food insecurity, housing, and public budgets, and they are often paid scant attention compared to research that focuses on the direct effects of opioid use. We give an overview of the ar…
Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment
Previous research has documented the negative consequences of exposure to food insecurity over the early childhood period in terms of health and cognitive and behavioral outcomes, but less research has explored the consequences of exposure to food insecurity at other points in childhood. We examine the association between food insecurity during adolescence and educational attainment. We begin by exploring a conceptual framework for the potential …
The Dynamics and Measurement of High School Homelessness and Achievement
How school districts measure homelessness among their students has implications for accountability and funding, as well as for supporting student success. Yet, measuring homelessness among high school students is challenging because students move in and out of experiencing it. Using administrative student-level data from a mid-sized public school district in the southern United States, we show that different commonly used procedures to measure wh…
The Labor Market Returns to Very Short-Term Rapid Postsecondary Certificates
Apprenticeships in the United States: Emerging Opportunities and Evidence Gaps
The data that support the findings of this study are available in the Harvard Dataverse at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/H1Q0HM. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: Department of Labor Apprenticeship reports (https://www.dol.gov/), National Center for Education Statistics (https://nces.ed.gov/), and ApprenticeshipUSA data dashboards (https://www.apprenticeship.gov/)
Psychology (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works)