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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …
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An important goal of community colleges is to prepare students for the labor market. But are students aware of the … labor market outcomes in different majors? And how much do students weigh labor market outcomes when choosing a major? In … this study we find that less than 40% of a sample of community college students in California rank broad categories of …
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provided cash payments to students in grades three through six for successful completion of their standardized testing … effects of the program on students' academic behavior. We find that math scores improved about 0.15 standard deviations but …
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Colleges rely on the ACT exam in their admission decisions to increase their ability to differentiate between students …
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We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking students' educational and labor … eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that are ex ante unknown to applicants. Aid eligibility increases …
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. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …
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