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policies that emerge from their competition for students. The calibrated version of the model matches well the aggregate … distribution of federal aid. Predictions about the distribution of students across colleges by ability and income and about the …, virtually all of the increase being in state colleges and mainly of poor students. Private colleges reduce institutional aid and …
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policies that emerge from their competition for students. The calibrated version of the model matches well the aggregate … distribution of federal aid. Predictions about the distribution of students across colleges by ability and income and about the …, virtually all of the increase being in state colleges and mainly of poor students. Private colleges reduce institutional aid and …
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The growth of for-profit colleges has been historically aided by online instruction, and budget crunches at public institutions, circumstances which have resurfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. We set up and calibrate a general equilibrium model of competition between public and for-profit...
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We develop a model of strategic grade determination by universities distinguished by their distributions of student academic abilities. Universities choose grading standards to maximize total wages of graduates. Job placement and wages hinge on a firm's productivity assessment given a student's...
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The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …
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This paper focused on issues of retention and the individual needs of international students at a southern university … through videotaped group interviews with six students from Africa, China, India, Japan, Jordan, and Nepal. Students were asked …, and other needs. Asking for and paying attention to the details that support international students in their quest to …
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This paper studies how private equity buyouts create value in higher education, a sector with opaque product quality and intense government subsidy. With novel data on 88 private equity deals involving 994 schools, we show that buyouts lead to higher tuition and per-student debt. Exploiting loan...
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