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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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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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levels of prior achievement, from poorer families, but also for those emotionally disrupted during assessments, and for those …
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This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...
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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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To reduce the spread of COVID-19, schools closed to an unprecedented degree in the spring of 2020. To varying extent … the implications of school closures of primary to upper-secondary schools for virus transmission, student learning, and …. However, several studies find that schools could reopen safely, especially when substantial within-school preventive measures …
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It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health....
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Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between-cohort variation in the age composition of different...
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being … families where only fathers earn, those where both parents earn negatively predict student effectiveness, while religion, caste …
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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted....
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