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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599413
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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo; Baert, Stijn - 2017
A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124743
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Adams and Eves : the gender gap in economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694262
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … behavioral biases among lower educated and younger students could explain these contrasting findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357422