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Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
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The study examines which factors predict academic performance at university and compares the predictive values of subject-related entrance exams and indicators of past school performance. The results show that in the fields of engineering and social sciences entrance exams predict both...
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with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
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We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
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significantly lower degree performance and higher risk of dropping-out. Especially, Turkish, Moroccan and Caribbean students are …
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several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team of cooperating senior researchers. Our empirical analysis is … for group composition with respect to students' study background and demographics (age, gender and cultural background …
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access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … 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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individual's human capital? We collect data from students in Moscow and Manila and use the variation in their height and gender …
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