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We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …
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Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we … investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may … impacts first-semester English grades for first-generation students. Our findings for math are inconclusive, with at best …
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We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …
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Turkish students residing abroad. The findings of this study indicate that, as expected, higher salaries offered in the host …
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promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them …
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, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …
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setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students …
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …
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Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA) receive. Using data on Harvard applications over...
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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