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creators_name: Hestermann, Nina
creators_name: Pistolesi, Nicolas
creators_idrefppn: 128716665
title: Does the Provision of Information on their Skills Affect Students' Enrollment Choices?
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abstract: This study assesses the impact of a French educational policy reform aimed at improving the match between students and their chosen field of study at university. As part of this reform, upon applying for entry to an undergraduate degree course, students are informed about their likelhood of succeeding given their observed skills. To examine the effect of the feedback they receive on students' choices, we compare students applying to different departments within the same university, some implementing the policy, providing candidates with feedback, whereas others do not. We find among those receiving a negative feedback that the proportion of students who decide to register for the degree course in question is reduced by about 7 percentage points but marginally significant at 10 percent level. Effects are heterogeneous according to students' origin and the type of high school they attended.
date: 2016-05
date_type: published
publisher: TSE Working Paper
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/30476
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: Access to Higher Education
keywords: Accès à l’enseignement supérieur
keywords: Study Counseling
keywords: Orienation scolaire
language: en
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subjectsJEL: JEL_H52
subjectsJEL: JEL_I23
subjectsJEL: JEL_I28
view_date_year: 2016
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: TSE Working Paper
volume: 16-650
place_of_pub: Toulouse
pages: 31
institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: TSE Working Paper
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citation:   Hestermann, Nina and Pistolesi, Nicolas <https://www.idref.fr/128716665>  (2016) Does the Provision of Information on their Skills Affect Students' Enrollment Choices?  TSE Working Paper, n. 16-650, Toulouse     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21980/1/wp_tse_650.pdf