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Are universities important for explaining unequal participation in student mobility? : a comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Bastianelli, Elena; Blasko, Zsuzsa - 2020

uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …

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Grads on the go : measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - 2022

This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....

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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...

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In-state college enrollment and later life location decisions

Winters, John V. - 2018

State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...

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Heterogeneous class size effects : new evidence from a panel of university students

Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - 2009

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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Differences by degree : evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...

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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students

Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...

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Centralized admission and the student-college match

Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016

Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...

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The eturns to college persistence for marginal students : regression discontinuity evidenced from university dismissal policies

Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas A. - 2016

We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings...

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The effect of university attended on graduates' labour market prospects : a field study of Great Britain

Drydakis, Nick - 2016

relation between university attended and employment prospects. …

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