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different social requirements and needs of students. An arithmetical example illustrates the way the model functions. We …
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fractions of students living in poverty-with progressive distributions associated with smaller test-score gaps in high … to school with, or are in school districts with, more students from low-income families. …
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students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …
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In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …
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This research examines the benefits of attending HBCUs vs PWI for black college students. Using a College Board Data … graduating with a bachelor's degree for black students attending an HBCU. Additionally, when comparing only those students who …
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lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …
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are not equally distributed among graduates, since recent literature shows that disadvantaged students are less likely to … study abroad than better off students. This is explained by differing social capital of individuals from diverse socio … differences in mobility by socio-economic background can be explained by ability of students? Throughout, results for Erasmus …
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The crisis slowed down the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy (for the EU to become the most competitive region in the world). The crisis has aggravated the divergence between the North West of Europe and Southern Europe in labor productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same...
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