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We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …
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. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain …
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
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