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Impatience and grades : delay-discount rates correlate negatively with college GPA

Kirby, Kris N.; Winston, Gordon C.; Santiesteban, Mariana - 2002

Because the rewards of academic performance in college are often delayed, the delay-discounting model of impulsiveness (Ainslie, 1975) predicts that academic performance should tend to decrease as people place less weight on future outcomes. To test this hypothesis, we estimated (hyperbolic)...

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Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?

Winston, Gordon C.; Hill, Catharine B. - 2005

answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most … advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so … target share of low-income students at these schools if their student bodies were to mirror the national high …

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