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students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …
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on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students? attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …
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This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three … record attract and select better students. There is no evidence of an independent effect of having a supervisor who is an …
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students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … formalism and more economic content. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower (with social sciences …
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Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …
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the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries … explained partially by the seniority of students, the self-perception of their academic performance and their subjective job … students show the necessity to analyse the question further with bigger and more representative samples. …
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …
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Turkish students residing abroad. The findings of this study indicate that, as expected, higher salaries offered in the host …
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