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reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …
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students with below average reading skills, emphasizing the need to target interventions toward appropriately skilled students …
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moderate ideology takes an intermediate value. In addition, the drop-off is stronger for viewers with access to cable channels … dynamic responses of viewers of differing ideology to cadenas and an analysis of the welfare consequences of cadenas …
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In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and...
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-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …
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aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …
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the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …
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We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking students' educational and labor …
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We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid … years (2004-2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved … postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007-2010), when …
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