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This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender, race, and family background. We then review the existing research in six key areas: expected earnings and...
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) survey eliciting from high school students and college undergraduates their expectations of the income they would earn if …
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This paper assesses the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to … increasing grant aid for low-income students and also enabled supply-side enhancements such as more spending per student, which … data on Texas public university students from 2000 to 2009 matched to earnings records, financial aid, and new measures of …
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market outcomes of their students. There is no consensus, however, on how such measures should be constructed, or how the … systems. We conclude that labor market data provides information that is quite distinct from students' academic outcomes …
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. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
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government and reached 30% of student loan applicants. We show that the low-income and low-achieving students who apply to low … correctly centered. Treatment causes low-income students to reduce their demand for low-return degrees by 4.6%, and increases …-earning college degree programs overestimate earnings for past graduates by over 100%, while beliefs for high-achieving students are …
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A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary … institutions - that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally. We also know … panel data set from Texas that allows us to both examine in detail the paths that students take towards a bachelor's degree …
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out from tertiary education: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges … program has been more effective in reducing the probability of dropping out for low-skilled individuals from low-income … incentivized higher education institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …
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one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the subject of interest (e.g., state assessments in three …
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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …
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