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students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …
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correlates positively with adherence to protective behaviors. Liberal political ideology predicts higher levels of protective … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …
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Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …
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students with below average reading skills, emphasizing the need to target interventions toward appropriately skilled students. …
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We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign … language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … administrative student register data and exploiting the staggered implementation of the curriculum reform, we find that exposure to …
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We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within … significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with students less likely to think markets are efficient and more likely to … results are largely driven by more politically progressive students. …
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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 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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of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …
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