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known about whether disparities in access to technology are partly responsible. Data from the first-ever field experiment … involving the random provision of free computers to low-income community college students for home use are used to explore … whether home computers are beneficial to minority students. I find that minority students receiving free computers achieved …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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capitalize on the existence of a natural experiment born out of a district's use of an exogenously- determined cutoff in Iowa … average literacy ability in fifth grade. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …
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This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing …. Opportunities to access basic education and infrastructure services in the seven countries vary widely in terms of availability and …
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can also have an important influence on inequality outcomes, in particular through education and labour market policies … politiques publiques, en particulier l’éducation et les politiques du marché du travail, peuvent aussi avoir une influence … politiques favorisant l’accumulation de capital humain, rendant le potentiel d’éducation moins tributaire de la situation …
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impact on overall earnings inequality. As for tertiary education, the impact remains ambiguous as there are several …
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Patterns of intergenerational educational mobility are studied in twelve post-communist countries of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. No clear trend in educational inheritance emerges over the recent 50 years, covering both the period of socialism and transition to a market economy....
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This paper uses high quality register-data to study the spillover effects on firstborns from having a younger sibling suffering from ADHD. Using OLS and cousin fixed effects analyses it is found that the educational outcomes of healthy firstborn children are significantly reduced by the presence...
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In this paper we confirm the universality of steadily rising education expenditures among OECD nations, as predicted by … future. However, we find that while the level of education costs in America is significantly higher than that of all other … OECD countries, education spending per student in the United States is increasing about as quickly as it is in many other …
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