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Credit constraints in higher education attendance : longitudinal evidence from Ethiopia

Eigbiremolen, God'stime Osekhebhen; Orji, Anthony - 2024

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Housing costs, college enrollment, and student mobility

Göhausen, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024

We study the effects of rental price changes on college enrollment rates. We exploit cross-district variation in the size and timing of local rental price booms in Germany during the 2010s. A one standard deviation increase in apartment rents decreased per-capita college enrollment by 1.1...

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Â€Œfamily Achievements?Â€� : How a College Degree Accumulates Wealth for Whites and Not for Blacks

Meschede, Tatjana - 2019

would be that it is also linked to higher net wealth for everybody. However, recent analyses challenge this hypothesis and …. To examine this finding further and investigate the role of family financial transfers in household net wealth, the …-educated households amass wealth, whereas the wealth of their Black counterparts declines. The authors also estimate the impact of just …

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Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2021

We study the relationship between political regimes and higher education and its implications for social mobility and political opposition in the context of the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. We show that the Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and...

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Absolute Versus Comparative Advantage : Consequences for Gender Gaps in STEM and College Access

Loyalka, Prashant Kumar - 2017

We examine the impact of the competitive “STEM track choice” — a defining institutional feature of a number of national education systems — on gender gaps in STEM majors and college access. Many national education systems require high school students to make a largely irreversible,...

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Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance

Goulas, Sofoklis - 2018

Would you prefer a tighter or a prolonged exam schedule? Would you prefer to take Math before Reading or the other way around? We exploit variation in end-of-course exam schedules across years and grades to identify distinct effects of the number of days between exams, the number of days since...

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Quota-Based Affirmative Action in Higher Education : The Impact on Other Backward Classes in India

Basant, Rakesh - 2019

While quota based and other affirmative action remains on the policy radar of nations faced with social inequalities, there is limited evidence informing policy choices at the national level. This paper estimates the mid-term impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in...

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Walking in Your Footsteps : Sibling Spillovers in Higher Education Choices

Aguirre, Josefa - 2018

Social interactions have been shown to affect peoples' behavior in many settings. Yet little is known about their role in shaping higher education choices. We exploit discontinuous admission rules generated by Chile's centralized system of admission to postsecondary education to study spillovers...

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Higher Education Opportunity and the Choice of Vocational vs. Academic High School

Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan; Luo, Chuliang - 2023

This research uses CHIP data of 2018 to examine the impact of higher education opportunities on the middle school graduates' choice between academic and vocational high schools. The findings indicate that a higher university quota at the provincial level increases the likelihood of middle school...

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Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of...

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