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discrimination against female students in the Chinese college education system …Motivated by a widely observed phenomenon in China that female college students outperform male students in economics … developed countries and the U.S. in particular, I find that holding constant observed student characteristics, female students …
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This paper investigates how college students update their future earnings beliefs using a unique 'information …' experiment: We provide college students true information about the population distribution of earnings, and observe how this … information causes them to update their future earnings beliefs. We show that college students are substantially misinformed about …
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Service organizations, including higher education providers, increasingly recognize that today's customers have many … the quality of service provided. In the case of higher education institutions, this seems to be the case at the time when … prospective students enroll or apply to several colleges to get admitted, during the break between semesters (when students …
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In January 2005, the ban on tuition in Germany has been declared unlawful. As a result, many 'Lander' developed plans to introduce tuition fees as soon as possible. It is shown in this paper, that the impact of tuition is very different among states. The willingness to pay varies not only by...
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Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by … traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … indicator for students’ personal problems within the academic context. The selection into the type of program is taken into …
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significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …
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This paper presents new evidence on the effects of class attendance on academic performance. We analyze survey data collected for an Introductory Macroeconomics course at “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti and Pescara (Italy) in the academic year 2004-2005, matched to administrative...
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traditional national university degrees. This could encourage more students to invest in higher education and to finish their … European Higher Education Area. The main component of the reform was the replacement of the existing national systems of higher … education degrees with a homogeneous Bachelor-Master system. The idea was that the comparability of higher education degrees …
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attaining higher levels of education would help them finding employment in competitive job markets. Students also strived to be … that Aboriginal students encounter as they pursue postsecondary education. 2. Increase Aboriginal representation and input … Cameron; Danielle Jeddore; Alana Lee; Garett Murray; Julie Puiras Background: Aboriginal students face numerous barriers upon …
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We evaluate the effect of performance-based incentive programs on educational outcomes for community college students … group students completed nearly 40 percent more credits. We find little evidence that program eligibility changed types of …
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