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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …
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a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …
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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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. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …
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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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