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Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation : A Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn - 2019
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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Early Gender Gaps Among University Graduates
Francesconi, Marco - 2018
We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women enter college in roughly equal numbers, but more women than men complete their degrees. Women...
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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Feld, Jan - 2019
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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Nudging Study Habits : A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
Pugatch, Todd - 2017
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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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
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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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate Cvs Signal to Employers?
Van Belle, Eva - 2019
responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate's field of study is …
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Behavioral Economics of Education
Koch, Alexander K. - 2014
-control, willingness to compete, intrinsic motivation, and self-confidence. We review how approaches from behavioral economics help our …
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Nudging in Education
Damgaard, Mette - 2018
-out intrinsic motivation, if nudges pressurise individuals, or in situations where the choice architect has an insufficient …
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …
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