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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …
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A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts … key factor determining the quality of education that migrant children receive …
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local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
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The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system...
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large region in Denmark. The sample is merged with register information on parents and students observed until the age of 19 … and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) of about 6,000 children born in 1990-92 in a … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …
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local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083868