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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L. - 2010

The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...

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Non-College Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

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Gender Differences in College Applications : Aspiration and Risk Management

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021

We study gender differences in decision-making strategy when applying for college using applications data for all … examine how the college choices of equally achieving students differ by gender. We find that female students better balance … for a particular college. When we investigate how effects differ across the achievement distribution, we find that gender …

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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education : Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal …

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Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya

Hines, Annie Laurie - 2018

Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …

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School Choice and Higher Education Attainment

Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada - 2022

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented in Chile in 1981. The program allowed students to choose which primary and secondary schools to attend. The government covered tuition independently of whether the chosen...

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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education

Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022

This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...

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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...

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The Long-Run Effects of College Remedial Education

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, … - 2022

We investigate the long-run impact of college remedial education on students' academic performance and employment status. By implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design we show that attending remedial courses positively affects the probability to get a university degree, whereas no...

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Nudging Study Habits : A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Pugatch, Todd - 2017

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment designed to increase take-up of university tutoring...

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