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Do international students and/or students from non-English language speaking backgrounds (NESB students) perform worse … than other students in Australian undergraduate classrooms? What happens to other students' marks when these students are … the business faculties of two Australian Technology Network universities. Results show that both international students …
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, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …
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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 …
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of students, though rates have risen at flagship universities. Finally, despite some weak association with increased …
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A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …
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the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores … mandates, with no effect on overall attendance. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically … human capital investment for a substantial number of students …
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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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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …
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We estimate the effects of access to student loans on university students' educational attainment and labor market … using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and linked administrative records. For students around the threshold … are observed primarily among female students due to a substantial gender difference in compliance with the pass rate …
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