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Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002
We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more … than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294494
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Neighbourhoods, economic incentives and post compulsory education choices
Lindvall, Lars - 2009
There are large differences in income and education levels, unemployment and ethnic composition between neighbourhoods. An interesting question is whether a neighbourhood's characteristics affect the behaviour of its residents. This paper investigates neighbourhood effects on youths-post primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285483
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Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospectss
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
of high school age population that attend secondary schools and the distribution of the secondary school students that …. Further, the SEC participation among the secondary school students and the secondary school participation among the relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500245
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Higher Education in India: The Need for Change
Agarwal, Pawan - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810053
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The Effect of a Student Aid Reform on Graduation: A Duration Analysis
Häkkinen, Iida; Uusitalo, Roope - 2003
In this paper we evaluate the changes in the times-to-degree at the Finnish universities in the 1990s. In particular, we evaluate the effect of the 1992 student aid reform that was intended to shorten the duration of university studies. We find that the student aid reform had only a modest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321561
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Public funding and enrolment into higher education in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela - 2002
In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294556
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967
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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
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The distributional effects of direct college costs
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
States. Both sources of variation indicate that lower ability students are the most responsive to changes in college costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321404
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Making the (letter) grade: The incentive effects of mandatory pass/fail courses
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022
-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …
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