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Distance to Degrees : How College Proximity Shapes Students' Enrollment Choices and Attainment Across Race-Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
Acton, Riley K.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Miller, Lois; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between geographic access to public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions and postsecondary outcomes varies across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are...
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Standardized Test Scores and Academic Performance at Ivy-Plus Colleges
Friedman, John N; Sacerdote, Bruce; Staiger, Douglas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship between standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores, high school GPA, and first-year college grades. Standardized test scores predict academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times...
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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544745
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083766
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2021
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224745
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171443
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Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects
Gilraine, Michael; Graham, James; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local … quantify this housing wealth channel using an overlapping generations model with neighborhood choice, spatial equilibrium, and … endogenous school quality. Housing market shocks in the model generate large intra- and intergenerational wealth effects, with …
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Diversity in schools: immigrants and the educational performance of U.S. born students
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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Classroom Competition, Student Effort, and Peer Effects
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Xu, Bing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how rewards based on class rank affect student effort and performance using a game-theoretic classroom competition model and data from the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the US. The paper finds that variation in the presence of strong or weak students changes the...
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Busing to Opportunity? The Impacts of the METCO Voluntary School Desegregation Program on Urban Students of Color
Setren, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively...
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