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This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In … between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of … foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a …
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transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …
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We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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completion and earnings. These patterns imply that, on average, students benefit from “overmatch” of the sort generated by … move lower ability students to higher quality colleges …
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selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …
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access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …
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high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …
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The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students …, we find a significant positive correlation between the share of international students and the private funding share for …
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the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …
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Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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