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Merit requirements in need-based student aid may exacerbate inequality in higher education but at the same time improve … concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …
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high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … peers in business school. However, men's labor market outcomes are not significantly affected. Taken together, our results … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …-of-origin cultural traits in models with residencecountry fixed effects. Associations of culture with family and school inputs suggest …
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Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages … 2,000 students enrolled in Economics Principles courses, with interventions proceeding in two phases. In the first phase …, randomly assigned students received a message with basic information about the Economics major, or the basic message combined …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of … across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find that bad economic conditions at high-school graduation increase …-market success. Outcomes are affected only by the economic conditions at high-school graduation, but not by those during earlier or …
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higher education (Academy Profession Programme). A challenge when teaching innovation is, that students resist engaging … themselves to it, as it represents change (Dibrov, 2015) and is different from other ways of attending classes of education. We … experience the same, students at the Administration, logistics and marketing management do not see themselves as innovators or …
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Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States,...
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The article focuses on the phenomenon of financial literacy of students. Financial literacy is treated as a combination … author verifies whether students assess their knowledge in a way that corresponds to reality and verifies whether students … need to expand their financial knowledge sorely necessary nowadays. The survey was completed by 380 students from …
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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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Bereits 2002 wurden bei einer BWL-Klausur zwei PISA-Aufgaben gestellt und die Rechtschreibung überprüft, was wiederum mit den Noten bzw. Punkten der Klausur korreliert wurde. Es gibt interessante Ergebnisse und Zusammenhänge, die jedoch nicht völlig eindeutig sind.
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