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Putting poor people to work : how the work-first idea eroded college access for the poor
Shaw, Kathleen M.; Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Mazzeo, Christopher - 2006
Introduction -- The emergence of the work-first prescription -- Welfare reform and access to postsecondary education: national trends -- The implementation of welfare reform: consistency and change -- The workforce investment act: investment or disinvestment? -- The implementation of WIA: does...
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Early commitment on financial aid and college decision-making of poor students : evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China
Chengfang, Liu; Zhang, Linxiu; Renfu, Luo; Wang, Xiaobing; … - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 627-640
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Higher education expansion and crime : new evidence from China
Liu, Xingfei; Wang, Chuhong; Yan, Zizhong; Zhao, Yi - 2022
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The Impact of an Academic High School Tuition Relief Program on Students’ Matriculation into High Schools in Rural China
Bai, YunLi - 2017
By 2010, only one-quarter of workers in China had received a high school (HS) education. One of the root causes of this … low rate is that China has the highest HS tuition fees globally. Although the Chinese government has implemented a series … of programs to reduce the cost of attending vocational HS, the cost of attending academic HS in China remains high. This …
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Returns to higher education in China : evidence from the 1999 higher education expansion using a fuzzy regression discontinuity
Dai, Fengyan; Cai, Fang; Zhu, Yu - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 6, pp. 489-494
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The medium-run efficiency consequences of unfair school matching : evidence from Chinese college admissions
Zhong, Xiaohan; Zhu, Lin - In: Journal of econometrics 224 (2021) 2, pp. 271-285
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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Higher education expansion in China, 1999-2003 : impact on graduate employability
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - In: China & world economy 30 (2022) 2, pp. 117-141
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Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China
Dai, Fengyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2021
We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the …
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Does college education promote entrepreneurship in China?
Chu, Tianshu; Wen, Qiang - In: Journal of labor research 40 (2019) 4, pp. 463-486
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