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What happens when college students are not able to enroll in the courses they want? We use a natural experiment at Purdue University in which first-year students are conditionally randomly assigned to oversubscribed courses. Compared to students who are assigned a requested course, those who are...
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adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …
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Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim...
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, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
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We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …
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We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …
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