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The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …
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The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...
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Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...
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strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in …
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We develop a unified empirical framework for child development which nests the key features of two previously parallel research programs, the Child Development literature and the Education Production Function literature. Our framework allows for mis-measured cognitive and non-cognitive skills,...
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accident had worse school outcomes than adjacent birth cohorts, and this deterioration was largest for those exposed …: students from the eight most affected municipalities were 3.6 percentage points less likely to qualify to high school as a …
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We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
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administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting … received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …
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We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … between boys and girls upon entry to school, but girls lose more than two-tenths of a standard deviation relative to boys over … the first six years of school. The ground lost by girls relative to boys is roughly half as large as the black-white test …
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and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and … many K-12 schools returned to in-person instruction. Third, using county-level variation in school reopenings in Fall 2020 … and Spring 2021--proxied by anonymized SafeGraph smartphone data on elementary and secondary school foot traffic--we find …
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