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experiment conducted in Tennessee elementary schools. In these data, classes were comprised of varying fractions of students who …
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In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills 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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Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
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We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
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We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469755
This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …
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This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students' major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …
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students' freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to … standards; all of which translate into students with weaker academic backgrounds being less likely to choose these majors …
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framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to anticipate their future earnings. For that purpose … suggests that expected earnings have a statistically significant but quantitatively small impact on the allocation of students …
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