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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … show consistently across all countries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due to their …
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Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …
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Universities use 'first in family' or 'first generation' as an indicator to increase the diversity of their student intake, but little is known about whether it is a good indicator of disadvantage. We use nationally representative, longitudinal survey data linked to administrative data from...
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The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …
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show that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being admitted, and that …
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. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …
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analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …
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application decisions of men and women. After the reform, fewer students applied to higher education and the reform especially …
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high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …
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