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This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …
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universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …
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-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …
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Many organizations use onboarding programs to assist newcomers with the transition process. Are brief social interactions during such programs sufficient to create lasting performance spillovers? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientation program for...
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-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …
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This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...
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This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …
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candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design …
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …
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