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schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate …
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Using 6 sweeps from 1958 British NCDS data we adopt a quasi-parametric approach of propensity score matching to estimate causal effects of higher education attainment on a wide range of cohorts’ health-related outcomes at ages 33, 42 and 50. The non-pecuniary benefits to HE attainments on...
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Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise … nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large … nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors College depends heavily on a numerical application score. Nonlinearities in …
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universities than high SES or White students. We use student-level university application data from the UK centralised university …
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college, a public four-year university in their state of residence, other colleges, or no college at all, as relative costs …
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Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …
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Purpose - As higher education continues to be buffeted by challenges, college and university leaders must find a way to …
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effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online …
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This article studies peer effects on the decision to enroll at university. To determine the social influence of peers … applicants to a single university over seven consecutive cohorts. We exploit idiosyncratic variations in the proportion of peers … effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …
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