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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points – equivalent to 3 …
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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice
Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017
Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points-equivalent to 3.7 native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653629
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172
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Raising education outcomes in Switzerland
Fuentes, Andrés - 2011
Almost all workers are educated at least to the upper secondary level and vocational education contributes to one of the most successful transition performances of youth to employment in the OECD. Higher education enjoys an excellent reputation, as reflected in one of the highest scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689059
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Improving Educational Outcomes in Slovenia
Eris, Mehmet - 2011
Overall, the education system fares well by international comparison. Slovenia has one of the highest shares of the population aged 25 to 64 to have completed at least upper secondary education, and ranks high in international educational achievement tests. Nevertheless, in some areas, reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689682
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531928
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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Fall Forward or Spring Back? Evaluating Student Outcomes of a Fall-Semester Transition Program at a Public Flagship University
Lapid, Patrick - 2019
Does the structure of the first-year college experience affect students' graduation outcomes? I investigate this question by evaluating UC Berkeley's Fall Program for Freshmen (FPF), a fall-semester program for undergraduates admitted for the following spring semester. During the fall semester,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899237
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Higher-Education Teaching Personnel Wages : Main Trends
Klyachko, Tatiana - 2015
Average wages of higher-education teaching personnel (HETP) in 2015 must account for 130% of the average wages in a given region. The Russian average HETP wages in January-September 2015 accounted for 140.2% of the average wages in economy, showing high differentiation by constituent territory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009644
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Labor Market Returns to Student Loans
Bucarey, Alonso - 2020
We study the labor market returns to a State guaranteed loan used to finance university degrees in Chile. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that marginally eligible students forego vocational education in favor of universities but reduce their probability of graduation. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852353