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college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of … among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of their pre-college age …
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information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 … evidence of larger biases among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of … their pre-college-age children attending college, and the likelihood of respondents recommending college for a friend …
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intervention, gaps in college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 30 to 50 percent. … beliefs, with larger biases for the more disadvantaged groups, lower-income and non-college households. We show that these …
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information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 … evidence of larger biases among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of … their pre-college-age children attending college, and the likelihood of respondents recommending college for a friend …
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We investigate the wage return to studying economics by leveraging a policy that prevented students with low … introductory grades from declaring the major. Students who barely met the GPA threshold to major in economics earned \$22,000 (46 … students' preferences toward business/finance careers, and about half of the wage return is explained by economics majors …
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college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of … among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of their pre-college age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012819
shocks to (students') education costs. Further analysis demonstrates that the tuition hike and student debt increase, despite …
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shocks to (students') education costs. Further analysis demonstrates that the tuition hike and student debt increase, despite …
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Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields … stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that prohibit students …, which matches observational patterns and can be explained by URM students’ poorer average pre-college academic preparation …
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