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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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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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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …
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that studying abroad has a stronger effect for credit constrained students. Furthermore, we suggest mechanisms through …
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qualified international students from attending US colleges and universities. However, citizens from five countries are de facto … exempt from the 2003 H-1B visa restrictions. Using international students from these five exempt nations as the control and … other international students as the treatment group, we study the effects of the 2003 H-1B policy change on the pool of …
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review the existing evidence and compile a longitudinal dataset covering inflows of international students into a number of … advanced economies. We then study the effects of various higher education policies on the inflow of international students … important tool to attract international students, and thus high-skilled migrants. …
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …
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I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
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