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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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German universities as state-sponsored co-operatives
Dilger, Alexander - 2007
Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
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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Can You Leave High School Behind?
Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...
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Student Mobility in Tertiary Education
Burmann, Martina; Delius, Antonia - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 3, pp. 48-50
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Grants or Loans? Theoretical Issues Regarding Access and Persistence in Postsecondary Education
Carmichael, Lorne; Finnie, Ross - 2007
Most economic investigations of access to education treat an investment in college or university as if it were a financial investment offering a particular expected rate of return. Since the average measured rates of return are quite favourable, other factors such as lack of information,...
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