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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender … stereotypical labour market behaviour, children of the same sex are more likely to choose a gender stereotypical education. The …
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To estimate whether information can close socioeconomic gaps in parents' aspirations for their child's postsecondary … education, we administer a four-armed survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. parents. After respondents … estimated and actual costs and returns. However, we find positive impacts on aspirations among parents who think their child is …
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first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …
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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … increase in score sends. The impact is driven almost entirely by well-resourced high schools and students. We find little … evidence that the count or composition of enrolled students changed as a result of the Scorecard information shock with the …
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