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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children’s educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …
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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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enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …
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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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