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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change … schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and retention. Homeless high schoolers have 5 percent (2.5 days) better …

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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes

Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016

In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...

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After lead : effects of early interventions for children exposed to lead

Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017

Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional...

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Evaluation of the reggio approach to early education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...

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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023

This study uses the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data, the only cross-national data having measured educational achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate educational achievement decline of fourth graders across 21 European countries between 2016 and...

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The impact of compulsory schooling on earnings : evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

general education has led to an increase in hourly wages of men, but not of women, who completed basic vocational schools. …

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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...

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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020

to full-day schools on several measures of 'the quality of mothers' jobs, which were correlated to working full-time. We …

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Intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling reform on early childhood development in a middle-income country

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2024

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey, which extended compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey,...

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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...

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