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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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a greater sorting of students and an increase in the returns to quality. These results somehow justify the recent …
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(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …
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In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...
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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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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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Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and...
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of the peer effect varies by field. Using data from a middle-sized public university located in Southern Italy and … exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find evidence that peer effects are positive … and statistically significant for students enrolled in the fields of Engineering, Maths and Natural Sciences - which are …
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which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …
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charging students for the costs of their education. …
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