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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany

Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...

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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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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries

Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …, while the differences between general and vocational schools are mainly explained by family social status. …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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"The teacher does not explain in class" : an exploration of the drivers of private tutoring in Egypt

Sieverding, Maia; Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa - 2017

as well as qualitative data on youth experiences in public, private, and religious schools. Our findings indicate that … ensure greater equality in education, there is an urgent need to test mechanisms for ensuring accountability in schools. …

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments

Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach

Doon, Roshnie - 2021

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. Using individual person's data from the Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015, the returns of over-educated workers is...

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Some unpleasant consequences of testing at length

Brunello, Giorgio; Crema, Angela; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018

Using Italian data on standardized test scores, we show that the performance decline associated with question position is heterogeneous across students. This fact implies that the rank of individuals and classes depends on the length of the test. Longer tests may also exhibit larger gaps between...

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