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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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Universal student enrollment systems : the more policies change, the more enrollment patterns stay the same
Sartain, Lauren; Lewers, Riley; Barrow, Lisa - 2022
Urban school districts nationwide have increased within-district choice for families. In response, district policymakers are overhauling the systems for applying to and enrolling in schools, with the goal of making it easier and more equitable for students to enroll in schools that are a good...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079378
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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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Higher Education Financing in Australia
Chapman, Bruce - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 55-61
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Education impact study : the global recession and the capacity of colleges and universities to serve vulnerable populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard A. - 2010
This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recession - an Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...
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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values
Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010
Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their high school class. We find evidence that households reacted...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...
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