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high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …
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high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …
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I evaluate a financial aid policy which automatically granted 1,800 euros annually to low-income students scoring in … the top 5% of high school students and enrolling in higher education. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that …. These null results do not appear to be driven by (i) students being unaware of this aid, (ii) crowding out of parents …
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analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …
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lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show …
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administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …
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Students from poor, rural areas of China receive less secondary schooling than their urban peers in part because of …
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The study examined the factors that affect students' academic achievement in Zimbabwe's rural Secondary Schools with … methodology and the population sample was drawn from teachers, Form 3 and Form 4 students and parents in the native area. The … as well as discipline and order are the major internal factors affecting students' academic achievement. The identified …
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working while enrolled, resulting in a 14 percentage points increase in students working during the academic year. The reform … - reduces debt and lowers academic capital accumulation as students finance more of the college cost by working and less by …
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-aid reform that caused students to work more and accumulate less debt. To quantify mechanisms and perform counterfactuals, we …
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