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We investigate divisions within the citation network in economics using citation data between 1990 and 2010. We consider all partitions of top institutions into two equal-sized clusters, and pick the one that minimizes cross-cluster citations. The strongest division is much stronger than could...
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stronger than what they really are. Thus, parents of low-performing students report their children to be friends of high …-performing students. Our numerical simulations indicate that when this bias is combined with a bias on how some children target friends …
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-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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college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and … informed. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing overall enrolment … institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low-educated parents face …
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assignment of undergraduates to peer groups during a mandatory orientation week and follow the students until graduation. High … levels of peer ability in a group harm the students' test scores and lead to increases in the probability of early dropout …; this result is driven by the adverse effect of high-ability peers on low-ability students. I find suggestive evidence for …
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nearly doubled from 2012 to 2019 when almost 40 percent took at least one class online. Female students and older students … the terms when students take at least one class online. However, we do not find evidence that online course taking results … in increased degree completion. While online course offerings offer students flexibility, those who take online courses …
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In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …
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This paper studies the phenomenon of early hiring in entry-level labor markets (e.g. the market for gastroenterology fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer a two-stage model in which workers in training institutions reveal information on...
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … students in countries with high - quality education. This phenomenon, as the usual brain drain, has two opposite effects on …
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This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on data on grade 9 students (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student is …. Correspondingly, ethnic minority students, on average, obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of ethnic minority …
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