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We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
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College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …
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support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …
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-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …
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to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …
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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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increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …
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periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. Using a difference-in-difference design, we show that the students …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …
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restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …
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We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the … effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …
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