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female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated … indication that students with children have a lower dropout rate since their probability to register a diploma is higher …
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the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes … coedu-cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …
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Die Bedeutung des Humankapitals für das künftige Wirtschaftswachstum ist allgemein anerkannt. Gleichzeitig stoßen steigende Studienanfängerzahlen auf knappe Bildungsbudgets in den Bundesländern. Wie wird sich die Zahl der Studienanfänger bis 2020 entwickeln? Wird es eine entsprechende...
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The study examines which factors predict academic performance at university and compares the predictive values of subject-related entrance exams and indicators of past school performance. The results show that in the fields of engineering and social sciences entrance exams predict both...
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with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … students in countries with high - quality education. This phenomenon, as the usual brain drain, has two opposite effects on …
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