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It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students' future … this important international policy reform that has motivated the chapter. An ICL provides students with finance for …
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From 1 January 2013, students in New Zealand who entered postgraduate qualifications other than Honours were no longer … students' choices. We use a student's allowance receipt as an undergraduate or her borrowing for course fees as a postgraduate …-ineligible students who enter an affected postgraduate qualification or an unaffected Honours degree. Although we are not able to cleanly …
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describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance. …
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students, including freshmen, transfers, undergraduates and graduate students. The model controls for factors other than … indicate that freshman students are more sensitive to changes in tuition than other undergraduate students in general – a one ….29 percent, holding all else constant. Both undergraduate transfer students and graduate students are found to be insensitive to …
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This chapter was written for a book published in India. The anticipated audience for this paper is generally for residents of India. Reading news reports and some academic commentary in India, I find that private higher education is very readily berated and dismissed. This is surprising to me,...
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023395
Collegiate esports is an emerging industry, an extension of professional esports that has caught the attention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA is currently exploring the possibility of taking a dominant regulatory role within collegiate esports. The leagues and...
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This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …
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When students fund their education through loans, changes in student borrowing and tuition are interlinked. Higher … tuition costs raise loan demand, but loan supply also affects equilibrium tuition costs — for example, by relaxing students …
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