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power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … when all variables compete it is only our backward induction measure ("Hit15") that weakly predicts graduation in four …
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power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … when all variables compete it is only our backward induction measure ("Hit15") that weakly predicts graduation in four …
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-term employment at labour market entry and (ii) reduce the number of children in the first 10 years after graduation. These …
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We use 292 household surveys from 18 Latin American countries to document patterns in secondary school graduation rates … over the period 1990-2010. We find that enrollment and graduation rates increased during that period while dropout rates … this progress, graduation rates are still generally low, there still persist remarkable gaps in educational outcomes in …
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entire higher education system, which in turn affected enrollment and graduation rates. Colombia faced this challenge with …
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unemployment rates have at best a modest effect on six year graduation rates. Both boys and girls are, however, more likely to not …
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Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an internal rate of return (IRR) of 14.2% for gross earnings,...
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