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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students …Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large …
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Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms
Gomes, Pedro Maia; Kuehn, Zoë - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors...
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Length of Stay in the Host Country and Educational Achievement of Immigrant Students: The Italian Case
Di Liberto, Adriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
skills observed between 1st and 2nd generation immigrant students is mainly due to both the negative performance of immigrant … children newly arrived in Italy, and the immigrant students' area of origin. Comparing the results across the different grades …. Overall, our results suggest the presence of a 'critical' age above which 1st generation immigrant students face a negative …
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Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance: An Analysis of Immigrants in France
Akgüc, Mehtap; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
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Mental Health and Education Decisions
Cornaglia, Francesca; Crivellaro, Elena; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...
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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...
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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and enrollment is of particular concern because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283577
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Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School
Cornwell, Christopher; Mustard, David B.; Van Parys, Jessica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test scores and (subjective) teacher assessments. Using data from the 1998-99 ECLS-K cohort, we show that the grades awarded by teachers are not aligned with test scores, with the...
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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
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