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Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to better understanding of temporary...
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University students have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We present results from the first wave of … expectations regarding three fundamental aspects of students' lives in the pandemic: the labor market, education, and health. We … document the differential responses of students as a function of their country of residence, parental income, gender, and for …
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and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …
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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
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by using a unique data set from a private university in Turkey. We assembled data set by matching college students …
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We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to … unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for endogeneity between absence and academic performance of students stemming … features of the data such as the random assignment of students to classes and information on the timetable of classes, which …
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In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid...
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In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi … and the oldest students within each cohort. Our data allow to control for potential selection issues as well as for … school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers …
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students, but peasants were more risk averse. Testing for the effect of socio-economic variables on uncertainty attitudes …
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We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …
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