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This article investigates the effects of large groups of first-year students on individual college performance. The … college. The results show that students in large cohorts of freshmen have a lower probability to complete their degree on …-time, partly because students take longer to attain their college degree and partly because more students are forced to de …
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We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...
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Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....
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