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college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
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What happens when college students cannot enroll in the courses they want? Using conditional random assignment to … any course in the corresponding subject by 30%. Course shutouts are particularly disruptive for female students, reducing …, shutouts do not appear to be disruptive to male students' long-run outcomes, with one exception--shutouts significantly …
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How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …
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In the past two years, 25 states have enacted executive orders and legislation to reduce unnecessary degree requirements for public sector jobs, signaling a shift toward skill-based hiring. This paper examines the impact of these policy commitments on public perceptions, media coverage, and job...
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non-traditional students. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether …
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. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin … (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin (students who would have enrolled …
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We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two … assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a 0 … lower income students. Also, the effects of class composition in terms of gender and ability appear to be inverse U …
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I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
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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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College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with …-based chatbot that proactively reached out to students to support navigation of administrative processes and use of campus resources … targeting college students to formulate testable hypotheses about their effective use for promoting college success …
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