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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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Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...
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income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association … between income and church attendance. But the association disappears in panel analyses, including first-differenced models of …
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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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