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average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …
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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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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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: 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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This paper examines the pathways by which individuals transition from healthy to disabled. Because of the high prevalence and costs associated with disability, understanding these pathways is critical to developing interventions to prevent or minimize disability. We compare two estimates of...
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Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women. Welfare reform, which began in the early 1990s and culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, has promoted work...
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We explore the educational response to fracking, a recent technological breakthrough in the oil and gas industry, taking advantage of the timing of its diffusion and spatial variation in shale reserves. We show that fracking has significantly increased relative demand for less-educated male...
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School quality and grade completion by students are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives … estimation of behavioral models of school leaving. Students perceive differences in school quality, measured as expected …
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schooling for students at the margin …
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Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic/interested about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students …
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