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university students in Moscow and over a hundred from Manila for whom we also have extensive information on high school test …
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …
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has also been reported that women students have lower academic self-efficacy in the STEM fields than men. In this study … the end of the students' fifth year. Design/Method: Respondents filled out 20-minute surveys, spaced out over … retention. Work self-efficacy, developed by students between their second and fourth years, was also an important factor in …
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solidaristic inclinations among higher education students in China and Europe. …
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von uns befragten jungen Akademiker haben nach dem Studium ein (oder mehrere) Praktika absolviert. Dabei wurde nur etwa …
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Higher education is never free - the question is: who should pay for it? Current policy debates in Europe are increasingly focusing on raising the share of private funding. To date, policy discussions have centred on a relatively small number of alternatives, namely full public funding, tuition...
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Akademiker der Fachrichtungen Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (MINT) sind für deutsche … Mitarbeitergruppe. Mittelfristig scheidet jedoch ein großer Teil der heute noch erwerbstätigen MINT-Akademiker altersbedingt aus dem …
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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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