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depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …
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an attempt to determine who benefits from college. Despite the tremendous heterogeneity across potential college students …
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High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks … apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary … education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid calculator. Most students' perceived returns to PSE were high, even among …
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quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …
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depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …
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design. H&R Block tax professionals helped low- to moderate-income families complete the FAFSA, the federal application for …
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improves trust and social interaction, and may offer substantial consumption value to some students. We discuss various …
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Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a more educated electorate enhances the quality of democracy. While some earlier studies document an association between schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to...
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Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …
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an attempt to determine who benefits from college. Despite the tremendous heterogeneity across potential college students …
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