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Honors education refers to programs for high achieving students at U.S. post-secondary institutions. These programs … provide high achieving students benefits such as the ability to enroll in exclusive courses with small class sizes, to live in … special dorms, and to enroll in classes earlier then non-honors students. These changes to a student’s college experience may …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who … default than students attending similarly selective public schools. Because for-profit schools tend to serve students from …-profit institutions. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given …
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end, I build a model where high school students decide their level of effort and whether to take the college admissions … increasing the level of equal college opportunities may boost the amount of effort exerted by high school students. Specifically … groups. (3) The highest reactions in terms of exerted effort come from those students who also change their decision about …
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the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …
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longitudinal data from a Peruvian cohort tracked from ages 8 to 26 (the Young Lives study) to analyze the profile of students …-19 crisis. We find evidence of stratification at higher education level: (a) students from the wealthiest households tend … income rewards; (b) students with higher levels of cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies tend to attend better …
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Research has shown that attending a relatively selective four-year college over a less selective alternative is positively related to bachelor's degree completion. This paper revisits that question with a novel data-set of over 11,000 sets of twins in the United States and information on...
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charging students for the costs of their education …
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