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To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at...
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males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at … detailed administrative data from the centralized college entrance system, I study the impact of gender differences in … unassigned and in relative preferences for school attributes can explain much of the gender gap at the most elite programs. …
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gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …
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The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of … college education subsidies and for the excess burden of income taxation caused by the college margin. We also show how the … recent structural labor literature on college education. The model incorporates multidimensional heterogeneity, idiosyncratic …
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, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …
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This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...
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Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker …
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