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US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of … quasi-random variation in the tuition charged to international students by public US universities in the year that they … local labor supply by about 0.23 employees for master's students and about 0.11 for bachelor's students. These averages …
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This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...
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enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …
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propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …
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We use unique data to examine how college students from low income families form expectations about academic ability … characterize beliefs. At the time of entrance, students tend to substantially discount the possibility of bad grade performance …, students update their beliefs in a manner which takes into account both initial beliefs and new information, with heterogeneity …
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We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student...
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indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in "ACT states," where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much less …
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availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …
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to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts … restrict the analysis to schools that assign students to classrooms in a manner statistically indistinguishable from random … advantaged students, a finding that may help explain why the observed form of teacher-student matching persists in equilibrium …
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students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …
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