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Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP …) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … increase in the probability that a district offers bilingual education above this 20-student cutoff. Using this discontinuity …
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We estimate the impact of external financial support on the labor supply of students during their tertiary education … of students asymmetrically, lowering their hours of work but not necessarily increasing their time devoted to studying …
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students; we find that while some students experience discount rates of up to 5.9 percentage points over four years in college …, others must pay up to 3.8 percentage points more than they would have without the regulation. Students who receive financial …
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academic performance impact students' decision-making. Many colleges utilize programs such as the Dean’s list and academic … probation policies as mediums to encourage student success. These policies impose a cost on affected students through the … semesters. Using the regression discontinuity design, I find that students who are named to the Dean’s list or put on academic …
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in Ningxia Province and a regression-discontinuity design, we find that students who score just below the tier-2 …
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inefficiency exists. Tobit and logit regression show that students who do not live with their family, female students and those … substantial; for example, students living with their parents may 'lose' up to 22 percentage points in the probability of being …
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scarce public financial resources available to tertiary education …
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direction and magnitude of this change. The study presents six specific findings: (1) the market for high LSAT students is … of students to discount the importance of rankings in favor of locational advantages related to the regional job market …; (4) students will pay a tuition premium to attend elite law schools but, when deciding among non-elite schools, are …
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matriculation of high-ability students. We find that the school choice of students is more responsive to changes in rank the higher … (better) a school is ranked. This result generally holds for aided and full pay students; however, the exception is that …-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a decade of Colgate University Admitted …
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Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort: 1980-92. I find that although subsidizing … potentially more important - all students, even the more highly motivated ones, respond to lower tuition levels by decreasing … how high-subsidy, low-tuition policies have both disincentive effects on students' study time and adverse affects on human …
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