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This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …
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Do international students and/or students from non-English language speaking backgrounds (NESB students) perform worse … than other students in Australian undergraduate classrooms? What happens to other students' marks when these students are … the business faculties of two Australian Technology Network universities. Results show that both international students …
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and the California Master Plan as well as the tuition fee systems in Australia, New Zealand and England have addressed …
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In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
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We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …
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weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …
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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet with their assigned PA when the PA was also male and 2) these …
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of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university … requirements. Based on administrative data covering all students, the empirical analysis is carried out by applying a difference …
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