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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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Hochschulen als Dienstleistungsmarken- Besonderheiten beim Aufbau einerMarkenidentität

Arnold, Brit; Greschuchna, Larissa - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2005

Hochschulen treffen derzeit auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen. Um langfristig denWettbewerb um Drittmittel, die besten Professoren, wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter undStudenten gewinnen zu können, ist eine Differenzierung vom Wettbewerb unumgänglich.Aufbauend auf theoretischen Grundlagen wird...

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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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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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