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unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
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There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces …
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Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not … leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …
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. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …
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designed to increase take-up of university tutoring services. Brief, one-time messages increased tutoring take-up by 7 …
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The private return to postsecondary investment varies widely by field, but the resources required by different fields are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs using novel department-level data. First, costs vary widely across field, ranging from electrical...
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scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
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This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...
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likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic …
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