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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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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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primary and middle school students' test scores in math, Hebrew, and English. One standard deviation improvement in … doesn't vary with students' socio-economic background, is highly non-linear, increases sharply for superintendents in the …
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-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …
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There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …
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College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional...
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enrollment patterns and the academic outcomes of community college students using administrative college-level panel data … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college … enrolment dropped precipitously in fall 2020 - the total number of enrolled students fell by 4 percent in spring 2020 and by 15 …
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