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Today, it can be seen in the real world that many students are unemployed after graduating from college or university … leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. This research was conducted in Indonesia, with a total sample of 789 students, through … entrepreneurial spirit than on leadership, whereas leadership influenced the entrepreneurial spirit of the students only to a small …
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One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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involved in foreclosure, we investigate the degree to which the test scores of students attending high-foreclosure schools … suffer, even among students not directly experiencing foreclosure. We also explore the impact on individual test scores of … school-level (by grade and year) student mobility - that is, inflows of new students to a school during the school year …
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This study uses a rich longitudinal data-set of 13,202 full-time students belonging to 11 cohorts over 22 consecutive … semesters since admission to the institution. (2) The rates are significantly related to the proportions of female students …, students who switch from their original academic programs, and students from private schools. (3) Results suggest that, under …
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that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …
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