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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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selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …
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of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …
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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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