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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM

Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024

in an important gateway STEM course at a large public university. We find no evidence of peer effects from estimates of …

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Entry conditions and the transition from tertiary education to employment : a cross-country perspective

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2024

This paper uses monthly data on tertiary education graduates in 19 European countries covering 2004-2017 to assess the short-run effects of entry conditions on the transition into employment. Using an instrumental variables approach, a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is...

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Gender equality programmes in higher education : international perspectives : [5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education 2007 in Berlin]

Grenz, Sabine (ed.) - 2008 - 1st edition

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The short- and long-term career effects of graduating in a recession : hysteresis and heterogeneity in the market for college graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip (contributor); … - 2008

characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999 …

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who … live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments … would suggest that the greater the distance to the nearest university, the lower the participation in higher education. We …

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Taking the easy way out : how the GED testing program induces students to drop out

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2008

We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...