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building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging temporal and geographic variation in program implementation, we … lowering the distance to a university campus, the program successfully increased university enrollment, particularly of less … privileged students who are the first in their families to attend a university. The program impacted students from localities up …
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American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …
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attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more …
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-beneficiaries. Using comprehensive administrative data from a leading Brazilian university which implemented affirmative action in 2005, we … college and less likely to graduate, a result that is mostly driven by those who would not be admitted to the university …
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Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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In the United States, licenses are required for entry into many different occupations. Requirements vary by state and occupation, but many licenses require a minimum number of training or instructional hours. We consider the impact of these hours requirements on students and postsecondary...
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Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies and interventions aimed at increasing college performance, persistence, and graduation. In this article, we assess whether cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) has the potential...
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College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with administrative processes can threaten student persistence and success. Through two experimental studies, one exploratory (N=13,657) and one pre-registered and confirmatory...
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This paper examines how private college and university endowments affect financial aid, admissions selectivity, and the …
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We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment decisions across race and socioeconomic status. Leveraging rich administrative data, we first document substantial differences in students' local college options, with White,...
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