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More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …
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Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …
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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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undertake postgraduate studies. We follow the students further and provide evidence on actual enrollment one year after …
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admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …
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foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …
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international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …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 …
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …
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Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help … time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the … causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four …
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restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master … success on the final exam, along with the decision to continue the following year in one of the models. We take the working …
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