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-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …
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mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
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In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...
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Half of all college students take at least one remedial course as part of their postsecondary experience, despite mixed … students' skills. But we also find relatively little evidence that it discourages either initial enrollment or persistence … appears to be diversionary: students simply take remedial courses instead of college-level courses. These diversionary effects …
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rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium … allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We … admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …
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track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …
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enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …
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Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …
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