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Does stricter immigration policy affect college enrollment and public-private school choice of natives?

Gunadi, Christian - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 25, pp. 1-26

In recent decades, the USA has admitted a large number of foreign-born students into its educational system, raising concerns that the presence of foreign-born students would adversely impact the educational achievement of US-born students and incentivize them to move to private schools where...

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School choice and higher education attainment

Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada - 2022

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … from low socio economic backgrounds benefited the most. Further, we study whether the impacts of vouchers depend on when …

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Gender differences in college applications : evidence from the centralized system in Turkey

Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2012

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at elite schools is particularly puzzling because college...

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Preferences, selection, and value added : a structural approach applied to Turkish exam high schools

Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Frisancho Robles, Verónica; … - 2013

What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' ; success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...

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College Assignment as a Large Contest

Bodoh-Creed, Aaron - 2016

We develop a model of college assignment as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous abilities compete for seats at vertically differentiated colleges through the acquisition of productive human capital. We use a continuum model to approximate the outcomes of a game with large, but...

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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added : A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools

Akyol, S. Pelin - 2013

What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...

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Higher Education Financing in Australia

Chapman, Bruce - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 55-61

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Higher Education Financing in Australia

Chapman, Bruce - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 2, pp. 55-61

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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...

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Quality Management in Higher Education between Desiderate and Reality

Turturean, Monica Aneta - 2014

The universities have to assure the highest level of quality management, to help teachers and students to acquire the European knowledge. The universities must be encouraged to develop better for the promotion of academic and civic values. However, the reality is often quite different: we find...

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