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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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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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shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …
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dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …
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overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries …
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Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this … all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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