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stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students' demand for, as well as … opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students … that the reform resulted in a decline in the number of subjects taken by minority students at the school exit test. There …
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would increase further by 2 percentage points in the absence of search frictions. Providing students with full information …
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of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out that a considerable share of prospective … students are affected by credit constraints. We find that most of the individuals are willing to pay a sizable interest premium … points for a $1,000 loan. The willingness-to-pay for financial aid is highly heterogeneous across students, with preferences …
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In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …
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We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We exploit a reform which introduced a large increase in the maximum university tuition fees and a more redistributive student loan system, both of which varied across the UK's...
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high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community … college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … costs of four-year public colleges similarly diverted some students toward community colleges but did not limit college …
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We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a summer learning program for vulnerable students … were most pronounced among primary school students and among students with special needs or from vulnerable environments …. The program compensated for summer learning loss, as treatment group students returned to school in September with higher …
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resilience of students from a large broad-access Hispanic Serving Institution and commuter urban college. In a 90-minute workshop …, students were: introduced to the resilient-thinking approach, which offers conceptual tools to cope with unexpected negative … student. Importantly, the intention-to-treat effects were larger for students with lower levels of baseline resilience. The …
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portfolio and compare students with similar portfolios and levels of interest in HBCUs and non-HBCUs who ultimately make … students initially enrolling in HBCUs are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a BA degree and have 5 percent higher …
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We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
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