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This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and...
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's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance … different types of higher education institutions. We find that enrollment in less than 2-year for-profit colleges increased more … such as the differential impact of the Great Recession, changes in state appropriations for higher education, differences …
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Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have … recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced … ‘University Technical Colleges’ (UTCs) in 2010 for students aged 14 to 18. 49 UTCs have been created since then. We use a spatial …
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Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its … effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online …
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Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …
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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
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