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The impact of pay-for-percentile incentive on low-achieving students in rural China
Chang, Fang; Wang, Huan; Qu, Yaqiong; Zheng, Qiang; … - In: Economics of education review 75 (2020), pp. 1-10
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316744
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118533
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Early commitment on financial aid and college decision-making of poor students : evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China
Chengfang, Liu; Zhang, Linxiu; Renfu, Luo; Wang, Xiaobing; … - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 627-640
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141425
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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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