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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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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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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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education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender … stereotypical labour market behaviour, children of the same sex are more likely to choose a gender stereotypical education. The …
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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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that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …
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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