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Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
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In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...
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We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766383
differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates …
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differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468088
School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts … are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies … important factors that affect school dropout. Short and long term policy suggestions to improve chances of universalization of …
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In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of … human resource thereby. The present paper is an attempt to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest … probable solutions to the problem. Status of enrollment & dropout at national and state level has been explored using macro …
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This paper investigates whether the hazard of dropping out for both male and female students changes over the duration of study. Using duration modelling techniques wend a certain degree of non-monotonic duration dependence for both males and females. However this pattern for female students...
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Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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