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We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …
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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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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …
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In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a …. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM … and non-STEM fields. Using administrative data from a large UK higher education institution, we consider a sample of 25 …
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argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using …
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This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social proximity among peers. Across systematic variations thereof, we find that anti-social behavior is generally more contagious than pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, we also...
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university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …
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