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, from alcohol consumption to criminal activities other than drink driving. …
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, from alcohol consumption to criminal activities other than drink driving. …
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to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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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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We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC rollout across constituencies using monthly data from 2010 to 2019 for England and Wales. We find UC...
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155165
stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which … male and female students pursue. …
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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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