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Schwerter, Jakob; Netz, Nicolai; Hübner, Nicolas - In: Economics of education review 100 (2024), pp. 1-16

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Leveling Up : Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2015

Does financial aid increase college attendance and completion? Selection bias and the high implicit tax rates imposed by overlapping aid programs make this question difficult to answer. This paper reports initial findings from a randomized evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship...

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Earning your CAP : a comprehensive analysis of the University of Texas system's Coordinated Admissions Program

Thompson, John - 2017

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Earning your CAP : A Comprehensive Analysis of The University of Texas System's Coordinated Admissions Program

Thompson, John (contributor) - 2017

The competitive application process is the traditional path to gain access to selective public universities. There is little research on alternative pathways to gain access to selective public universities. In this manuscript, we use the fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the impact...

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A community college instructor like me : race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2014

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity...

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Do Disadvantaged Students Benefit from Attending Classes with More Skilled Colleagues? Evidence from a Top University in Brazil

Oliveira, Rodrigo; Motte, Henrique; Santos, Alei - 2022

Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students’ efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university in Brazil that split students in two...

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Motté, Henrique; Santos, Alei - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 85 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Redistribution without distortion : evidence from an affirmative action program at a large Brazilian university

Estevan, Fernanda; Gall, Thomas; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2016

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Diversity in University Admissions : Affirmative Action, Top Percent Policies, and Holistic Review

Bleemer, Zachary - 2019

-represented minority (URM) university enrollment. Widely-implemented alternatives include 'top percent' policies, which guarantee admission …

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