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Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …
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We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …
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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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eighth and ninth grade students in a financial education programme. In particular, the effect of within-class ability … matching is investigated by forming pairs of students either randomly or based on their abilities. In addition, the paper … studies whether differentiated instruction, in the form of additional instructions for lower ability students, enhances the …
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We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship … between students’ years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …
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This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...
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