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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,...

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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 …

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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017

a large public university in California, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the share of foreign peers across …

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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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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020

-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged …. Approximately 29% of new apprentices are university-eligible graduates from academic-track schools. We evaluate the effects of the … Bologna reform on new highly educated apprentices using a generalized difference-in-differences design based on detailed …

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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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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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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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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 …

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