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outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …
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, but were significantly larger in districts with larger populations of students who are Black, Hispanic or eligible for …
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week harms test performance. Second, these effects are evidenced for high and low-ability students, boys and girls. They … likelihood of students behaving dishonestly in exams …
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influx of international students; granting fellowships to students working on turning scientific and technological advances …
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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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predictions of the human capital model. The growing dispersion of international students to emerging economies and continuing …
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Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also …
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I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...
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-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students - particularly with regard to distance to public two …-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at …
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Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies …
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