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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

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Heterogeneous class size effects: new evidence from a panel of university students

Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - 2009

Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...

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Where is aggressive price competition taking higher education?

Winston, Gordon C.; Zimmerman, David J. - 2000

It is increasingly clear that price competition is escalating in the market for higher education. We attempt to understand how price competition would work in higher education and explore the likely long run equilibrium structure of prices in that context. We draw inferences using both...

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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2008

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

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Universities in the market for continuing higher education

Wentzel, Bettina; Oelmann, Mark - 2002

The purpose of the paper is to explain why and how American universities have taken the lead in continuing education compared to their European counterparts. In a first step we will discuss different notions of continuing education and develop an analytical framework to handle its various forms....

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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data

Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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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

In Fall 2014, Wellesley College began mandating pass/fail grading for courses taken by first-year, first-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice and performance, using a...

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Addressing the Green and Digital Transition in Third Mission Projects

Feser, Daniel - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 2, pp. 87-91

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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … attendance of entrepreneurship classes in the same period. To account for a potential bias due to self-selection into … entrepreneurship classes, only individuals having no prior entrepreneurial intentions are analyzed. Our results indicate a stimulating …

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