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where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
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We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …
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use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
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We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...
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We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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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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This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … in STEM occupations, earn less, and have more children. Our findings show that the school peer environment has lasting …
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difference-in-difference approach using administrative panel data on over 54,000 course grades of local students enrolled at … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …
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