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market outcomes. Using a field experiment in which graders at one university were randomly assigned students' exams that did … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of … continental Europe these costs are not levied on students, but are borne by the national tax payers, making them an active topic … countries benefit from educating international students. We derive conditions under which international education has a positive …
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students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …
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Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
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This study assesses the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement. We survey college students about …
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Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...
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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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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …
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