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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
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, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …
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10th grade. These report cards publicize information about the students' mathematical and reading literacy skills, as … well as statistics about the school and about the parents. This paper summarizes the most important theoretical and …
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-roma students had the same opportunities in their schooling career. The further scenarios measure the effects of educational policy … changes: reducing the duration of compulsory schooling; increasing the share of students in secondary vocational training …
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-Roma students is almost entirely explained by social differences in income, wealth and parental education, and ethnic factors do not …This study quantifies the achievement gap between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary and assesses the potential … magnitude is similar to the gap between African American and White students in the early 1980's. The gap between Roma and non …
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