and sons. -- Bosnia and Herzegovina ; children ; education ; parents ; school ; self-reported health … the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …

educational performance of female students, our empirical analysis shows that the gender gap in student progression (number of …

people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A …

concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …

attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are …

undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential treatment intensities is used to investigate … student enrolments and enrolment of students with better entry qualifications after the VTR. Our analysis demonstrates that … enrolment by 5.8%. The effects are larger for high-quality students, namely those with better high school final marks (8.3%) or …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation … competitive behaviour is negatively evaluated by schoolmates, especially when the class is more homogeneous in terms of students … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …