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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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Regional public universities educate approximately 70 percent of college students at four-year public universities and an even larger share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They aim to provide opportunity for education and social mobility, in part by locating near potential students....
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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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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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Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...
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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 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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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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I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score …. Cumulated over fifteen years, the time span of income data for my sample, the net premium of attending the elite university …
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Community colleges have long been recognized for their potential in providing access to post-secondary education for students of limited means. Indeed, the recent #FreeTuition movement is built on community colleges as a cornerstone. Previous research on the value of community colleges in...
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