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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
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significantly reduced university attendance by women relative to men. Additionally, we find that the policy had a negative impact on …
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-experiment in Germany's university admissions, we provide evidence against this assumption. We study a centralized clearinghouse … that implements the early stages of the university-proposing Gale-Shapley deferred-acceptance mechanism in real time … students to learn about universities and accepting a university that turns out to be inferior causes regret. We discuss and …
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We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates...
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This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...
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countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never … enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less than university graduates. Moreover, university dropouts do not appear to have … university attendance without completion is rewarded in the labour market. We find some suggestive evidence that university …
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This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of … preferred field of study are more likely to change their field, delay graduation and drop out of university. The estimated …
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We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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