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opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students … that the reform resulted in a decline in the number of subjects taken by minority students at the school exit test. There … was also a notable shift in the take-up of particular subjects, with fewer exams taken by minority students in more …
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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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Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …
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I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
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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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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …
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More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …
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We examine the impact of US colleges and universities switching from an academic quarter calendar to a semester calendar on student outcomes. Using panel data on the near universe of four-year nonprofit institutions and leveraging quasi-experimental variation in calendars across institutions and...
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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