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Centralized admission and the student-college match
Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016
Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543646
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476579
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Gender separation and academic achievement in higher education : evidence from a natural experiment in Iran
Kamal, Zahra - 2021
In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619812
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The schooling and labor market effects of eliminating university tuition in Ecuador
Molina, Teresa; Rivadeneyra, Ivan - 2020
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012272034
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
line with previous international evidence, we also find that tuition fees decreased university enrollment among high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285889
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
line with previous international evidence, we also find that tuition fees decreased university enrollment among high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293412
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517315
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519843
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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM … and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college major. The reform that was introduced in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510504
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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563302