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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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selective Colombian university that led to large differences in mean classmate ability for students in the same programs. In a … regression discontinuity design, we find that students in higher-ability classes were more likely to fail courses and drop out …
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
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-sensitive majors towards recession-resistant majors, suggesting students' expectations about future labor market outcomes are affected …
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We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty on education costs and future returns. Students, applying a learning by … - students' characteristics, abilities and behavior; parental background and family networks; characteristics of the tertiary … resulting from the encompassing analysis is to provide an all-inclusive orientation activity for students, before they enroll at …
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assist the administrator to manage the students' activities effectively. By using different e-service quality dimensions …
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, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …
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effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …
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