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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543646
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476579
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The schooling and labor market effects of eliminating university tuition in Ecuador
Molina, Teresa; Rivadeneyra, Ivan - 2020
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
line with previous international evidence, we also find that tuition fees decreased university enrollment among high school …
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Class size effects in higher education : differences across STEM and non-STEM fields
Kara, Elif; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2020
. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …
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College admission as a screening and sorting device
Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022
How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
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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 …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM … and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in …
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449778
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Specialists or all-rounders : how best to select university students?
Silva, Pedro Luis - 2022
the labour market, the university chooses to use them as a criterion for selection alongside the mastery of more subject …
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