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In 2014, the government of Colombia launched a unique meanstested and merit-based scholarship program called Ser Pilo Paga. We examine the effects of this scholarship on student performance on the country's university exit exam and other educational outcomes. Exploiting thresholds for...
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In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial aid to students from poorer backgrounds have … entered. Low SES students are less likely to enter business/economic fields and more likely to enter education -- the lowest … find that, at age 33, students in the lowest SES group who studied a graduate degree earn about 10% less compared to the …
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year before the referendum. This exercise reveals a decrease in exchange students studying in the UK of around 3.8% to 4 ….9%. While the number of non-EU students to the UK rises, a drop in EU student numbers drives this result. Similarly, 30% to 38 …% fewer UK students choose to study abroad. The estimated changes in international student stocks show that most other member …
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lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …
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policy fails to incentivize students from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background it may lead to a deterioration in the …
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