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In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy and thinking in several developing countries. This...
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Partly as a result of the rapid growth in Chinese higher education, graduate placement has become a critical issue facing colleges and universties. In response, one of the policy initiatives adopted by the Chinese government is for higher education institutions to put an emphasis on...
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difference-in-differences estimator using rural students to control for common time trends. We find that the Great HE raised … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … the 2SLS returns for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds are at least as high as their more advantaged …
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universities in China. An overview is presented why Chinese students increasingly prefer to study in the U.S. A general … presented of the Chinese and U.S. higher education admission process, including a discussion of why Chinese students may resort …
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While the wage effects of vocational versus academic secondary education are well documented, there is little evidence on how polytechnics degrees pay off compared to university degrees. In this paper, we estimate the polytechnic degree wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher...
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