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State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …
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discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to … education when students are about 30 years old. The college premium seems to increase over time, possibly offsetting the initial …
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describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance. …
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students, including freshmen, transfers, undergraduates and graduate students. The model controls for factors other than … indicate that freshman students are more sensitive to changes in tuition than other undergraduate students in general – a one ….29 percent, holding all else constant. Both undergraduate transfer students and graduate students are found to be insensitive to …
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enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …
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State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …
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Social interactions have been shown to affect peoples' behavior in many settings. Yet little is known about their role in shaping higher education choices. We exploit discontinuous admission rules generated by Chile's centralized system of admission to postsecondary education to study spillovers...
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Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its …
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students from underrepresented groups, such as those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. To evaluate this reform … indicate that the shortening has no (positive) effect on the share of students from low social origins …
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This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are commonly referred to as dersane in Turkish. This...
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