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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 …
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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...
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A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason … students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to … statistically significant and positive impact on the math scores of seventh grade students. More importantly, this program is shown …
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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 …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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