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overall null effects. Effects are larger for high-SES students and mostly confined to developed countries. …
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We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human … should teach their students broader skills. …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students’ test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical …
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Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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disparities in educational achievement. It is greater in (most of) continental Europe and Latin America than in Asia, Scandinavia …
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school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …
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-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students' standardised test scores. However, budget allocation …
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...
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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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