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Long-lasting effects of socialist education

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Masella, Paolo - 2016

Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...

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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …

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Do universities shape their students' personality?

Schurer, Stefanie; New, Sonja C. de; Leung, Felix - 2015

We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human capital investment model. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian adolescents followed over eight years, we find that youth conscientiousness, internal locus of...

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Every cloud has a silver lining : the role of study time and class recordings on university students' performance during COVID-19

Binelli, Chiara; Comi, Simona; Meschi, Elena; Pagani, Laura - 2024

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. Thanks to the richness of our data, we can investigate for the first time the role of two...

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...

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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Hemelt, Steven W. (contributor); … - 2008

more than 0.25 percent, with larger effects at Research I universities. We find no evidence that especially large increases …

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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 matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...

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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major

Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in one German state increased the degree of difficulty to...

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Can admissions percent plans lead to better collegiate fit for minority students?

Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2015

Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...

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