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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015
State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...
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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority … hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority …' hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288010
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Uniform admissions, unequal access : did the top 10% plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?
Klasik, Daniel; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Economics of education review 87 (2022), pp. 1-25
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Uniform admissions, unequal access: did the Top 10% Plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?
Cortes, Kalena E.; Klasik, Daniel - 2020
The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post …-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high … schools. We provide a detailed description of changes in enrollment patterns at the flagship campuses from Texas high schools …
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The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students : The Role of Pre-College Choices
Tincani, Michela Maria; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022
Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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The effect of preferential admissions on the college participation of disadvantaged students : the role of pre-college choices
Tincani, Michela M.; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022
Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417638
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Uniform admissions, unequal access : did the Top 10% Plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?
Cortes, Kalena E.; Klasik, Daniel - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423800
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of …
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