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Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …
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Information about teachers' effectiveness at the hiring stage is particularly scarce despite its importance for personnel decisions. Using the German setting of teacher training, I investigate the relationship of teachers' pre-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state...
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. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …
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Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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secondary schools. Utilizing novel data on over 10,000 students, we construct comprehensive measures of social status and …. We show that while central and well-connected students are positive about their social environment, less central and … socially isolated students view it as hostile. Our results highlight the importance of improving the relational dynamics of …
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In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial aid to students from poorer backgrounds have … entered. Low SES students are less likely to enter business/economic fields and more likely to enter education -- the lowest … find that, at age 33, students in the lowest SES group who studied a graduate degree earn about 10% less compared to the …
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