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government and reached 30% of student loan applicants. We show that the low-income and low-achieving students who apply to low … correctly centered. Treatment causes low-income students to reduce their demand for low-return degrees by 4.6%, and increases …-earning college degree programs overestimate earnings for past graduates by over 100%, while beliefs for high-achieving students are …
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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We use large-scale surveys of Chilean college applicants and college students to explore the way students form beliefs … to observed values for past students and follow survey participants forward to see how beliefs relate to matriculation … and dropout outcomes. We find that students have correctly centered but noisy cost expectations, and appear to …
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Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …
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