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We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
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boost economic growth. However, evidence suggests that Canada's former international students experience significant labour …A key objective of Canada's International Education Strategy (2014) isto leverage Canada's postsecondary institutions … to attract and retain the world's "best and brightest" students to raise the average skill of the Canadian population and …
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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 estimates annual data on educational attainment for 3,076 mainland U.S. counties 1991-2005. Being estimated without resorting to ancillary information, this data is suited particular well for panel regression analyses. Several plausibility checks indicate that the data is fairly...
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Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …
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College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …
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data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on …
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current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
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In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data … earnings than men when choosing a field of study and those students who were employed prior to starting college are more … sensitive to earnings variations across fields of study than students with no prior work experience. …
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