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Is the return to education the same for everybody? : while a four-year college degree is financially beneficial for most people, it is not necessarily the best option for everyone

Webber, Douglas A. - 2014

A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...

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Trade-offs in choosing a college major

Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023

this gender imbalance, some scholars noted that those more lucrative fields tend to have a more competitive environment and … relative aversion to low-grading disciplines. The empirical literature also brings up a competing reasoning that gender biases … foundation for the latter explanation as a predominant one and reconciling it with the empirical evidence of gender differences …

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Spillovers in fields of study : siblings, cousins, and neighbors

Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023

We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...

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Experimental Estimates of College Coaching on Postsecondary Re-enrollment

Turner, Lesley J.; Gurantz, Oded - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

College attendance has increased significantly over the last few decades, but dropout rates remain high, with fewer than half of all adults ultimately obtaining a postsecondary credential. This project investigates whether one-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion...

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Bridging the Gap : Mismatch Effects and Catch-Up Dynamics in a Brazilian College Affirmative Action

Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Santos, Alei; Severnini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by providing access to quality education for talented...

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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education

Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023

We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...

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To Be or Not Be An International University?

Nagi, Kuldeep - 2019

For most of the last century, majority of the universities in USA catered to the local needs and the economy. In the beginning of the 20th Century few universities in the USA started to expand to attract students across the borders and the region and gradually acquired national and international...

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Exploring Asian-American/Pacific Islander Student Grit Within the Two-Year College System

Zentner, Aeron; Gutierrez, Rene; Bell, Edith; Pham, Peterson - 2016

The topic of grit has been a highly sought after set of traits as it carries positive correlation with individual performance and in turn, has reflected to have a positive impact organizational outcomes. Recently, grit has emerged in higher education as a non-cognitive factor to drive student...

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On the Financial Reform in Russia's Higher Education

Klyachko, Tatiana; Sinelnikov-Murylev, Sergei Germanovich - 2013

The article deals with higher education reform in Russia. Special attention is paid to the innovations after the Federal law No 83 was adopted (2010). The authors analyze whether the reforms lead to financial self-dependence of universities, whether they do create a more competitive environment...

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How Social Ties Affect Peer Group Effects : Case of University Students

Poldin, Oleg; Valeeva, Diliara; Yudkevich, Maria - 2015

We study how the achievements of university students are influenced by the characteristics and achievements of peers in individuals’ social networks. Defining peer group in terms of friendship and study partner ties enables us to apply a network regression model and thereby disentangle the...

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