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Education as a tool for the economic integration of migrants
De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016
evidence on student performance in international tests showing that children with an immigrant background display worse results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455647
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The effect of immigration on the school performance of natives : cross country evidence using PISA test scores
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi … is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.8 percent to … natives. There is also evidence that "conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils" reducing the dispersion of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152817
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The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives : Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi … is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.8 percent to … natives. There is also evidence that - conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils - reducing the dispersion of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129941
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The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
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Math scores in high stakes grades
Brunello, Giorgio; Kiss, David - 2019
We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher math scores than in lower stakes grades. We identify a high stakes grade with the final grade of primary or secondary school, because good performance in that grade can affect...
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The power of the pill : oral contraceptives and women's career and marriage decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001450336
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Mass secondary schooling and the state : the role of state compulsion in the high school movement
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001825875
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Educational standards in private and public schools
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Rocco, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2005 - Stand: Februar 2005
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration,...
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The "virtues" of the past : education in the first hundred years of the new republic
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2003
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Dynamics of the gender gap for young professionals in the corporate and financial sectors
Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2009
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