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recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college … and work in less educated occupations. -- migration ; human capital ; education ; college towns ; wages …
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newly available administrative data from the University of Texas at Austin, we take advantage of the unique policy … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …
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semesters (Fall 1995 to Spring 2006) to model the determinants of the grade inflation rates prevailing at the University of …
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higher education, there is currently much discussion on these concepts and an increasing number of institutions is … management in the United States, discusses research on this topic in U.S. higher education and compares this with current …
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We study a structural model of college admissions framed as a contest between a continuum of students for enrollment in a continuum of colleges where the contest outcome is decided by the students' choice of human capital (HC). Students have private information about their learning costs, and...
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We observe two waves of overseas programs offered by U.S. universities: A supply driven wave in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, and a current wave beginning in the early 2000s, with distinctly different players. We compile a comprehensive dataset on overseas degree programs and host country...
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Injury rates in twelve U.S. men’s college sports and five U.S. boys' high school sports are examined in this paper. The sports are categorized as "contact" or "non-contact," and differences in injury rates between the two are examined. Injury rates in the contact sports are considerably higher...
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Injury rates in twelve U.S. men's collegiate sports are examined in this paper. The twelve sports ranked by overall injury rate are wrestling, football, ice hockey, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, baseball, indoor track, cross country, outdoor track, and swimming. The first six sports will...
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of student affairs departments within the broader context of higher education, and it begins to explore the view of the …
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