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, mostly through a steady reduction in the number of openings for new students. Individuals that reached college age shortly …
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control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction in the number of openings for new students across all universities …
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instead shifts students across higher education sectors. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to …
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. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students …. Using nonlinear models, one prevalent finding is larger peer effects in which high ability students benefit from the … presence of other high ability students. Studies that stratify students by race and ability often find that students are …
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This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the choices of inputs and outcome measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother-tongue literacy program. The program raises reading scores by 0.64SDs and writing scores by 0.45SDs. A reduced-cost version...
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Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work, I assess in how far this decline may be related to the...
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