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Greek organizations at a campus, as measured by the percentage of students who are members of fraternities and sororities … students in fraternities (but not sororities) is associated with an increase in the number of arrests for drug law violations …. A larger percentage of students in sororities (but not the percentage of students in fraternities) is associated with a …
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This paper compares actual US crime and incarceration rates to predicted rates from cross-country regressions. Global … cross-country regressions of crime and incarceration on background characteristics explain much of the variation between … other countries. But the estimated models predict only one-fourth of US incarceration and not all of US crime. The …
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Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...
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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …
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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … show consistently across all countries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due to their …
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This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...
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recently emerging fourth-generation universities should meet sustainability objectives to better serve their students and their … students’ perceptions of university sustainability including their expectations about and satisfaction with the efforts that … students consider Hungarian universities unsustainable. Research findings indicate that Hungarian universities perform poorly …
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This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …
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Greek organizations at a campus, as measured by the percentage of students who are members of fraternities and sororities … that a larger percentage of students in fraternities (but not sororities) is associated with an increase in the number of … arrests for drug law violations. A larger percentage of students in sororities (but not the percentage of students in …
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