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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106956
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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa - 2020
delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. In addition to the government's standard … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824424
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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data
Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011
We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129088
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?
Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority studentsﾒ demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131922
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The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011
I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118268
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Publishing Trends in Economics Across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
Winkler, Anne E. - 2011
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
Christofides, Louis N. - 2012
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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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
Ou, Dongshu - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001317