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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
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Are universities important for explaining unequal participation in student mobility? : a comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Bastianelli, Elena; Blasko, Zsuzsa - 2020
uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202811
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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In-state college enrollment and later life location decisions
Winters, John V. - 2018
State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959624
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Centralized admission and the student-college match
Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016
Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543646
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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526726
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Fully integrating upper-secondary vocational and academic courses : a flexible new way?
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico - 2016
national VET qualification and university entry. In this study, we estimate the impacts of taking these courses on academic … achievement and university entry using administrative data, propensity score matching and a decomposition method developed … especially. We find that among those who intend to go to university, taking a VET course is associated with 5 percent lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450867
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The eturns to college persistence for marginal students : regression discontinuity evidenced from university dismissal policies
Ost, Ben; Pan, Weixiang; Webber, Douglas A. - 2016
We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings...
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LATE for the meeting : gender, peer advising, and college success
Ellis, Jimmy R.; Gershenson, Seth - 2016
experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476579
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Dual-credit courses and the road to college : experimental evidence from Tennessee
Hemelt, Steven W.; Schwartz, Nathaniel L.; Dynarski, … - 2019
Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized controlled trial of the effects of dual-credit...
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