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We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …
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Turkish students residing abroad. The findings of this study indicate that, as expected, higher salaries offered in the host …
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College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed - since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional...
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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the maximum federal student loan amounts available to U.S. college students. In particular, first-, second-, and third …-year students have access to different amounts of federal student loans. Using a regression discontinuity and administrative data …
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university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-English-speaking students with respect to their linguistic background. English-speaking students are largely unaffected by the ethno …-linguistic classroom composition.Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …
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Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …
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the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using data extracted from the longitudinal...
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