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Evolution of long distance students' mobility : the role of the air transport service in Italy
Cattaneo, Mattia; Malighetti, Paolo; Paleari, Stefano; … - 2015
? changes on the long distance mobility of students. In the last decade, students aiming to increase their opportunities in the … same time, long distance students? mobility has been facilitated by the decrease of travel costs (e.g. Ryanair, Freccia … mobility of first-time first-year university students (more than 300 km from their households) departing from each Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477176
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Binge eating pattern among school students
V., Ranjana; Ganapathy, Dhanraj; Sasanka, Keerthi - In: Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1734-1744
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548234
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College major choice and the gender gap
Zafar, Basit (contributor) - 2009
Males and females are markedly different in their choice of college major. Two main reasons have been suggested for the gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812568
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How do college students form expectations?
Zafir, Basit - 2009
Because students rely on their subjective expectations when choosing a college major, understanding this process of expectations formation is crucial for education policy recommendations. This paper focuses on how college students form expectations about various major-specific outcomes. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864586
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825129
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Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Kang, Songman - 2010
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what their expected earnings would be...
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Widening participation in higher education : analysis using linked administrative data
Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2010
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England – those who took GCSEs...
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Double majors : one for me, one for the parents?
Zafar, Basit - 2010
At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...
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University study abroad and graduates' employability : there is a positive association between study abroad and graduates' job prospects
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2014
In recent decades, the number of university students worldwide who have received some part of their education abroad has been rising rapidly. Despite the popularity of international student exchange programs, however, debate continues over what students gain from this experience. A major...
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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students
Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177
. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student's mobility …
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