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Giving college credit where it is due : advanced placement exam scores and college outcomes
Smith, Jonathan; Hurwitz, Michael; Avery, Christopher - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290023
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Giving College Credit Where it is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes
Smith, Jonathan - 2015
mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022931
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Giving College Credit Where it is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes
Smith, Jonathan - 2015
mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457519
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Giving College Credit Where It Is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes
Smith, Jonathan; Hurwitz, Michael; Avery, Christopher - 2015
mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135309
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O brother, where start thou? : sibling-spillovers in college enrollment
Goodman, Joshua S.; Hurwitz, Michael; Mulhern, Christine; … - 2019
We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138906
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Reprint of "The relationship between siblings' college choices : evidence from one million SAT-taking families"
Goodman, Joshua S.; Hurwitz, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; … - In: Economics of education review 51 (2016), pp. 125-135
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The impact of campus scandals on college applications
Smith, Jonathan; Rooney, Patrick; Smith, Jonathan - 2016
to rape. With so much information regarding a college's academic and non-academic attributes available to students, how ….S. universities between 2001 and 2013. Scandals with a high level of media coverage significantly reduce applications. For example, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704564
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Screening mechanisms and student responses in the college market
Smith, Jonathan; Hurwitz, Michael; Howell, Jessica - In: Economics of education review 44 (2014), pp. 17-28
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Ova and out : using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college
Smith, Jonathan - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 166-180
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The effect of college applications on enrollment
Smith, Jonathan - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 14 (2014) 1, pp. 151-188
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