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Information and college access : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Oreopoulos, Philip; Dunn, Ryan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679622
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Information and College Access : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2012
High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097669
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Information and College Access : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2012
High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460109
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Bait and Switch : How Student Loan Debt Stifles Social Mobility
Scott, Robert; Patten, Joseph N.; Mitchell, Kenneth - 2023
Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Bait –The History of American Colleges and the Creation of Student Loans -- Chapter 2: The Switch – Higher Education as a Public Goods Decays (1965-1992) -- Chapter 3: The Income and Wealth Effects of Student Loan Debt -- Chapter 4: Recent Changes to Student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426420
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Informing students about college : an efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018
information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … collected data from students prior to the information intervention and followed them for four consecutive years. We find … evidence that an information intervention increases students' application as well as their enrollment rates, in particular for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928550
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : A cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - In: Education economics 31 (2023) 5, pp. 617-631
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382216
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Long-term effects of grade retention
Meulen, Simon ter - 2023
Grade retention offers students a chance to catch up with unmastered material but also leads to less labor-market experience by delaying graduation and labor-market entry. This is the first paper to quantify this trade-off, using an exit exam cutoff of Dutch academic secondary schools, where...
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(Un)informed college and major choice : evidence from linked survey and administrative data
Hastings, Justine S.; Neilson, Christopher A.; Ramirez, … - In: Economics of education review 51 (2016), pp. 136-151
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