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scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston's charter high schools …
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completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …
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subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …
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Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …
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The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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Public School (CPS) district. Specifically, we investigate whether students attending small high schools have better … graduation/enrollment rates and achievement than similar students who attend regular CPS high schools. We show that students who … variables strategy and compare students who live in the same neighborhoods but differ in their residential proximity to a small …
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symptoms, feeling sad and losing interest in usual activities for at least two consecutive weeks, among high school students … below, by over 15%. Coefficient sizes are similar when comparison groups are restricted to students engaging in correlated …
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intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side … students' high school performance, they could remediate substantially fewer students without lowering success rates in college …
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A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary … institutions - that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally. We also know … panel data set from Texas that allows us to both examine in detail the paths that students take towards a bachelor's degree …
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We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking students' educational and labor …
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