In the present world where education is considered an important factor, all educational institutions are facing competition at a higher level. Students are diverted towards doing higher courses offered by numerous institutes, universities, and colleges, however with the increase in the number of...

Complementing the focus of the second piece, quot;Adding Immigrants to Microsimulation Models,quot; on forecasting immigrant earnings and emigration in a quot;closed systemquot; for a given population, the last article of the trilogy explores how to project immigrant earnings for an quot;open...

This paper discussed advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of admission tests as predictors of performance in undergraduate studies programs. The paper analyzes performance of economics and business administration students. This performance is linked to admission tests results....

We collect a comprehensive set of non-academic characteristics for a representative sample of incoming freshman to explore which measures best predict the wide variance in first-year college performance unaccounted for by past grades. We focus our attention on student outliers. Students whose...