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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...
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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499579
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Re-testing PISA students one year later : on school value added estimation using OECD-PISA
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …
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Who chooses which private education? : theory and international evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented … students. To assess the empirical relevance of this mechanism, we exploit cross-country variation in the PISA 2009 survey of …
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