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In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial aid to students from poorer backgrounds have … entered. Low SES students are less likely to enter business/economic fields and more likely to enter education -- the lowest … find that, at age 33, students in the lowest SES group who studied a graduate degree earn about 10% less compared to the …
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Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate … mediator - students who rank high in math are more likely to choose STEM subjects in school and this can partly explain their …
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We introduce two simple new variants of the Jackknife Instrumental Variables (JIVE) estimator for overidentified linear models and show that they are superior to the existing JIVE estimator, significantly improving on its small sample bias properties. We also compare our new estimators to...
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administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …
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A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
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achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less advantaged backgrounds. Second, there are large …
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …
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