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the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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complete high school, those students who take the alternative pathway have better post-secondary outcomes in both education and …High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … investigates the post-secondary effects of an alternative high school graduation program. Among students who initially fail an exit …
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experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …
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education. Specifically I ask whether the network of native peers at university affect the probability that foreign students in …I investigate what affects foreign students' decision to stay and work in the host country after completion of higher … variation in the share of Danish students who are admitted into each study program over adjacent cohorts. I find that an …
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Massachusetts. We examine whether this induced a growing proportion of students in MA community colleges (MACCs) to earn an … of MACC entrants in the proportion of students who earned an AD in a healthcare or STEM program within six years of entry …We find a substantial increase across cohorts in the proportion of students who earned an AD in a STEM program, but not …
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We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby … options than their Black, Asian, suburban, and urban peers. We then show that students are sensitive to the distance they must …
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An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …
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This paper looks at consumer complaints about student loan lenders and servicers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) consumer complaint database. Using a novel dataset drawn from 30,678 complaints filed against 212 student loan companies, we analyze consumers’...
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students, and significant differences in student progress due to fields of study …
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environments: online versus offline proctored exams. This study employs a set of aggregated data from 1762 students over the eight … students take their exams either online proctoring or offline proctoring environments. This study concludes that the proctoring …
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