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describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance …
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Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …
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studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students' budgets. To identify causal effects, we … exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. They did not affect students' spending behavior … students increased their budgets only marginally; fees did not increase social inequality …
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We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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students from first-year courses (𝑁 = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased … was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of … estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students …
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subsequent exams. Students of lower prior performance have lower fatigue effects and higher warm-up effects in STEM subjects … compared to students of higher prior performance. Also, we find that exam productivity in STEM increases faster for boys than …
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benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship … between students’ years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …
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