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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its … effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online …
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Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a … and non-STEM fields. Using administrative data from a large UK higher education institution, we consider a sample of 25 …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …
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This paper explores students’ expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … stages of higher education. Our findings indicate substantial perceived returns to higher education. Moreover, using within …-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting education premia as …
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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure …, faculty, link with productive sector, costs and funding, and practices on student admission and institutional governance. We …
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This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...
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Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states...
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To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...
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