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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 …
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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students … exit test (which is also a university entry test) in Ukrainian, the state language, thus denying them previously granted … that the reform resulted in a decline in the number of subjects taken by minority students at the school exit test. There …
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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 … above the threshold value for admissions eligibility at a large public university in Florida are much more likely to attend …
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the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and …
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of students, though rates have risen at flagship universities. Finally, despite some weak association with increased …
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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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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not …
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Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition … fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative data of applicants for medical schools in … Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a …
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We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …
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