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benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …
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sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …
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and earnings for the students who are induced to choose Math after being exposed to the pilot scheme. The effect partly … stems from the fact that these students end up with higher education …
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inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …
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describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance …
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least over the last 65 years). This is the first study explicitly on providing the association between parents' and children … result of Adult Education Survey of 2007. Several findings emerge from the analysis. First of all, children's and parents … use of a unique data set on educational outcomes based on children recall of parental education. The data used is the …
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and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …
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In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
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This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
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In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...
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