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The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...
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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and … students from China. Given the concentration of high quality colleges and universities in the U.S., there has been a … substantial increase in the demand for enrollment among students from abroad. At the same time, substantial declines in state …
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In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple …, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students …
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this decline is most pronounced amongst men beginning college at less-selective public 4-year schools and amongst students … preparedness of entering students and the component due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources …
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Previous work (Hoxby and Avery 2014) shows that low-income higher achievers tend not to apply to selective colleges … trial that provides such students with individualized information about the college application process and colleges' net … prices. In other work (Hoxby and Turner 2013), we show that the informational intervention substantially raises students …
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Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand, including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of the market are...
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