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Rendimiento de los Estudiantes de las Universidades Públicas Argentinas

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  • Luciano Di Gresia
  • Alberto Porto
  • Laura Ripani

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This work has as objective to analyze the factors that influence in the students' performance. The whole population of students of public universities in Argentina is used. The data are of the Census of Students of National Universities of 1994. Indicators of the main characteristics of the Public Universities are presented and their students. Are studied factors that influence in the students' performance, defined as the quantity of matters approved per year from the entrance. This performance measure is the one that adopts the art. 50 of the Law of Superior Education (Law 24.521/95) to define regular student's condition. Estimates econometrics of the determinant of the students' performance are presented for the universe of students of the Public Universities (around 400 thousand observations) and for separate for each one of the Universities.

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  • Luciano Di Gresia & Alberto Porto & Laura Ripani, 2002. "Rendimiento de los Estudiantes de las Universidades Públicas Argentinas," IIE, Working Papers 045, IIE, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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    1. María Victoria Fazio, 2004. "Incidencia de las Horas Trabajadas en el Rendimiento Académico de Estudiantes Universitarios Argentinos," Department of Economics, Working Papers 052, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
    2. María Victoria Fazio, 2004. "Incidencia de las Horas Trabajadas en el Rendimiento Académico de Estudiantes Universitarios Argentinos," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0010, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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    5. Mariana Marchionni, 2005. "Labor Participation and Earnings for Young Women in Argentina," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0029, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

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