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In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data … unprecedented in the past half century. We examine impacts of these tuition increases on total enrollment and credit hours, and ….1072. So, at the mean a $100 increase in tuition and fees (in 2006 dollars) would lead to a decline in enrollment of a little …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … public four-year colleges we study the impact of public higher education costs on the post-secondary enrollment decisions of … high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community …
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admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our … institutions to investigate its impact on student sorting, migration and enrollment. We find that institutions under the … centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of …
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In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data … unprecedented in the past half century. We examine impacts of these tuition increases on total enrollment and credit hours, and ….1072. So, at the mean a $100 increase in tuition and fees (in 2006 dollars) would lead to a decline in enrollment of a little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566709
students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
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There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....
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first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low performance in natural science courses …. Results suggest that selective Honors programs can accelerate skill acquisition for high-achieving students at public … universities, but not all students benefit from Honors admission. …
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We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial … testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a … studying tested in the literature. We find demand for the contract, with take-up of 10% among students randomly assigned a …
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Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...
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