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Does an aptitude test affect socioeconomic and gender gaps in attendance at an elite university?
Anders, Jake - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
test on the proportion of successful applicants by school type (as a proxy for socioeconomic status) and by gender using a … (by 3.6 percentage points). By gender, I find some evidence that these changes may be having differing effects at …
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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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Better Luck Next Time: Learning Through Retaking
Krishna, Kala; Frisancho, Verónica; Lychagin, Sergey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper we provide some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey we estimate cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt...
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Teenagers' expectations of applying to university: how do they change?
Anders, Jake; Micklewright, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013
We show how young people's expectations about application to university change during the teenage years, drawing on the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE). We reveal the pattern of change by family background (measured by parental education and family income), prior attainment...
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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students
Hoxby, Caroline; Turner, Sarah - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research …
Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other high-achieving students do: applying to several selective colleges whose curriculum is designed for students with a level of achievement like their own. This is despite the fact that selective...
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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen: Zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland
Ritzen, Jo; Hinte, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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Efectos del prestigo de los colegios de enseñanza media, de las Universidades y el aprendizaje del empleador sobre los salarios en Chile
Paola, Bordón - In: Estudios Públicos (2014) 133, pp. 69-96
This paper studies the effects of attending a private high school, the university ranking and the employer learning on wages. The empirical strategy is based on the Mincer-type wage regressions. The analysis was carried out using individual-level data from Chile. I find a large and significant...
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