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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … increased time investments in students' skill development. Overall, my results suggest that selective admission policies can … lead to permanent improvements in students' educational performances. …
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children with moderate levels of 'special educational needs' in England. We show that the decentralized design of the policy … generates significant variations in access to remediation resources across children with similar prior levels of difficulty … ineffective for 'treated' children. In the second part of our analysis, we use demographic variation within schools to consider …
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In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak …
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effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …
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dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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influence of children’s cognitive skills and parents’ socioeconomic background on cooperation. …We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also …
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dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599232
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but …
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in the mid-2000s about how children are taught to read.We conceptualise this as a shock to the education production … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to … be effects of the teaching technology ('synthetic phonics') at age 5 and 7. However, by the age of 11, other children …
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