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-secondary degree attainment gaps between four student populations which together comprise 94 percent of public school students in … concentrated in the lowest quintile. College enrollment is higher for minority students of both genders in the average and lower AI …
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sample of 380 college students. Exploratory estimates using a series of Probit and Ordered Probit models indicate that … literacy than otherwise. Therefore female students holding lower GPA scores are ill equipped to successfully conduct efficient …
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-related performance gap is explained by selection problems in the group of low-skilled and poor male students. In particular, the high … overcome this issue, unobservable male students are simulated and bounding procedures used. The results of this analysis …
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. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …
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-related performance gap is explained by selection problems in the group of low-skilled and poor male students. In particular, the high … overcome this issue, unobservable male students are simulated and bounding procedures used. The results of this analysis …
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), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …
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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet with their assigned PA when the PA was also male and 2) these …
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programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
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high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …
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