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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Rational students and resit exams
Kooreman, Peter - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 213-215
Resit exams–extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year–are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two exam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603112
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Un Modelo de Educación Superior y Deserción Universitaria: Evidencia de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Bogotá
Villa, Edgar; Arango, Martha Misas; Norman, Mary Berrío; … - UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA - BOGOTÁ - 2013
education is developed: Universities, households and students. The theoretical model shows that the college dropout occurs in … students who have a low level of innate ability that makes no effort optimally, as well as students who do not expect to … representative sample of 473 students from the population of Neo - Javerianos cohort 2006. It is found that the profile of a defector …
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Online Homework Management Systems: Should We Allow Multiple Attempts?
Sarbaum, Jeffrey Kent; Rhodes, M. Taylor - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
Conventional pencil and paper wisdom suggests that allowing multiple attempts on homework will lead to more time spent on homework, higher homework grades, and better exam performance. For a variety of reasons, homework is increasingly being auto-administered online. This paper discusses the...
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In brief...Top of the class
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Boys may be better off not going to the school with high-performing peers, according to research by Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt, which explores how much impact there is on later confidence and exam results from where a child ranks in primary school. They find that being ranked in the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721421
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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed here allows schooling choices to be independently influenced by both personal and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721627
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The Importance of Rank Position
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset tracking over two million students in England from primary …
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Rank as an Incentive
Tran, Anh; Zeckhauser, Richard - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2009
experiments in Vietnam assessed whether students in real-world learning environments were concerned with their performance …
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Evidencia empírica sobre la teoría de la demanda de educación superior en América Latina: un estudio sobre el caso del Caribe Colombiano
Morales, Juan Carlos Miranda; Gutierrez, Hamadys L. … - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
Esta comunicación presenta un análisis de la teoría de la elección micro-económica tomando como referencia de la demanda de educación de tercer ciclo de los graduantes de secundaria en el Caribe colombiano. Se pretende, establecer el nivel de incidencia de factores como nivel educativo del...
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Body Weight and Academic Performance: Gender and Peer Effects
BARONE, Adriana; NESE, Annamaria - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2014
achievement only for female students thus suggesting that, during late adolescence, physicality plays different roles according to … only when female students are considered …
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