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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …
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Peers, neighborhoods, and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 67-95
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Should we increase instruction time in low achieving schools? : evidence from Southern Italy
Battistin, Erich; Meroni, Elena Claudia - 2013
This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, that provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower secondary schools of Southern Italy. We control for sorting across classes using the fact that freshman...
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