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The graduation shift of German universities of applied sciences
Bornmann, Lutz; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2018
In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
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Big Five Personality Traits and Academic Performance in Russian Universities
Nye, John V.; Orel, Ekaterina; Kochergina, Ekaterina - 2013
university students using results from the Unified State Examination (for university admissions) and their current grade point …
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Determinants of college major choice : identification using an information experiment
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2011
, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …
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Why academic quality in higher education declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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Decentralizing university admission : evidence from a natural experiment
Horstschräer, Julia - 2012
experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668475
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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …
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College curriculum, diverging selectivity, and enrollment expansion
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …
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The eturns to college persistence for marginal students : regression discontinuity evidenced from university dismissal policies
Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas A. - 2016
weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet with their assigned PA when the PA was also male and 2) these …
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