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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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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...
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graduates. As a source of identifying variation, we exploit the introduction and expansion of the European ERASMUS student … that studying abroad has a stronger effect for credit constrained students. Furthermore, we suggest mechanisms through …
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administrative and survey data before the pandemic, we find that both teachers and students in lower performing regions were using no …
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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325437
This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while …
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Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …
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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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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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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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