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College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …
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-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …
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persistence of at-risk students at scale …
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sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This has forced researchers to adopt …-out decisions of some students, the large majority of attrition of students from low income families should be primarily attributed …
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We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …
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We examine the impact of a temporary price shock on the attainment of undocumented college students enrolled in a large … undocumented students. By fall 2002, the state legislature restored in-state rates. Using a differences … immediate 8 percent decrease in senior college students' enrollment. Senior college students who entered college the semester …
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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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: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges and by 64.3% for those … institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …
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,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% lost a job, internship, or a job offer, and 29% expect to …
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this decline is most pronounced amongst men beginning college at less-selective public 4-year schools and amongst students … preparedness of entering students and the component due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources …
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