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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of three different types of education policies: tuition subsidies (broad based, merit based, and flat tuition), grant subsidies (broad based and merit based), and loan limit restrictions. We develop a quantitative theory of college within the context of...
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the University System of Georgia to look more in depth at the effects of the HOPE Scholarship on degree completion in …
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of three different types of education policies: tuition subsidies (broad based, merit based, and flat tuition), grant subsidies (broad based and merit based), and loan limit restrictions. We develop a quantitative theory of college within the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659107
, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …
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substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps— specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an “information intervention,” and find that were individuals to be provided with the …
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This paper provides evidence on ability peer effects in university education. Identification comes from the random …
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Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
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This paper investigates the labour market destinations of graduates from seven higher education institutions in South Africa. A three-step estimation procedure is employed in which the relative importance of covariates such as age, race, and gender in each stage from educational attainment to...
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university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and … Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the system of Higher Education by giving all polytechnics university status …
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This study estimates the incidence of job mismatch and its determinants in Pakistan, based on three categories: (i) qualification mismatch, (i) skill mismatch, and (iii) field-of-study mismatch. It uses both primary and secondary datasets that target graduates employed by the formal sector. The...
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