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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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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …
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. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …
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Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college … that the dual-credit advanced algebra course alters students' subsequent high school math course-taking, reducing … effect of the dual-credit math course on overall rates of college enrollment. However, the course induces some students to …
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, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …
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application rates, particularly for Hispanic students, are not explained by differential levels of college readiness, high school … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
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analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …
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The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and...
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foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …
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quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …
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