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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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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
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residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …
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Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...
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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 …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …
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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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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate measure. Our findings suggest a positive return to university quality with an...
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subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we …
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on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. …
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