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higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …
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of students, though rates have risen at flagship universities. Finally, despite some weak association with increased …
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Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …
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One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course ….S. undergraduates and over half of minority students in public colleges. The impacts of course availability in this setting may be … reliance on state funding. Across a range of bandwidths, we find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course …
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studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students' budgets. To identify causal effects, we … exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. They did not affect students' spending behavior … students increased their budgets only marginally; fees did not increase social inequality …
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we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …
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describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance …
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-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …
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female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …
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that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …
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