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The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...
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economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …
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's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …
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This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …
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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
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One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover, country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
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academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
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The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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