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lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …
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In 2014, the government of Colombia launched a unique meanstested and merit-based scholarship program called Ser Pilo Paga. We examine the effects of this scholarship on student performance on the country's university exit exam and other educational outcomes. Exploiting thresholds for...
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support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …
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university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …
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We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call "globalization." This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, thus being able to overcome what would otherwise be a fast saturation...
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policy fails to incentivize students from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background it may lead to a deterioration in the …
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