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Addressing Non-Financial Barriers to College Access and Success : Evidence and Policy Implications
Dynarski, Susan M.; Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other …
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Bridging the Gap : Mismatch Effects and Catch-Up Dynamics in a Brazilian College Affirmative Action
Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Santos, Alei; Severnini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by providing access to quality education for talented...
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The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants
Grossman, Joshua; Tomkins, Sabina; Page, Lindsay C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this issue, in large part due to a dearth of data. Here we...
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Experimental Estimates of College Coaching on Postsecondary Re-enrollment
Turner, Lesley J.; Gurantz, Oded - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
College attendance has increased significantly over the last few decades, but dropout rates remain high, with fewer than half of all adults ultimately obtaining a postsecondary credential. This project investigates whether one-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion...
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The Effect of College and University Endowments on Financial Aid, Admissions, and Student Composition
Bulman, George - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines how private college and university endowments affect financial aid, admissions selectivity, and the economic and racial composition of incoming students. Because endowment levels are a function of expenditures and alumni giving, which are endogenous to the outcomes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362058
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528336
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Transparency and Percent Plans
Kapor, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transparency vs. opacity is an important dimension of college admission policy. Colleges may gain useful information from a holistic review of applicants' materials, but in doing so may contribute to uncertainty that discourages potential applicants with poor information. This paper investigates...
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The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access
Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388846
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A Professor Like Me : The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2007
Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465472
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 1994
panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474033