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Minding the gap: academic outcomes from pre-college programs
Kotlikoff, Phoebe; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Smith, Katherine A. - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of assignment to a one-year college preparatory program on academic performance in college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large dataset of United States Naval Academy students from the 1988 to 2018 graduating classes, of which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430731
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany : the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of … social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public … basis of GSOEP and regional data. The results show that the probability of enrolment in higher education is mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445166
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany : the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of … social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public … basis of GSOEP and regional data. The results show that the probability of enrolment in higher education is mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428378
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Gender separation and academic achievement in higher education : evidence from a natural experiment in Iran
Kamal, Zahra - 2021
-sex schooling, this paper addresses the dearth of the research in the context of higher education as well as the context of Muslim …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619812
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Timing of college enrollment and family formation decisions
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; … - 2014
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236447
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The effects of the Kalamazoo Promise scholarship on college enrollment, persistence, and completion
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad; Lachowska, Marta - 2015
We estimate the effects on postsecondary education outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous place-based college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288671
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Chile's missing students : dictatorship, higher education and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González López, Felipe; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252320
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Policies in tertiary education and the change in attendance and time-to-degree
Amann, Roland A. (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003460406
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531591
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences … education disproportionately affected applicants from less affluent backgrounds and plausibly contributed to the increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529853