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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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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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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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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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Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as … mobile students, so that the burden of that financing, usually public, is supported by the host country. Moreover in- and … outflows of students show imbalances and such imbalances are expected to increase with mobility. Therefore, we first suggest …
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This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …
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This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea … is that students drop out of college mainly because they fail to complete the requirements for earning a degree. This … introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not …
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