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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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Using longitudinal data based on administrative registers for the population of Danish men we develop a model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and...
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Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find … negative impacts of the training (0.1-0.18SD), whereas we find positive impacts in larger schools (0.06-0.17SD). We conclude …
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In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices …-performing schools to lower-performing schools decrease in value by three to five percent. However, many of the redistricted properties …
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We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta …-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact …
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its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions … cohorts. More segregated schools enroll students with lower baseline achievement and employ lower valueadded teachers … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance …
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This paper studies whether specialized academic fields of study in secondary school, which are common in many countries … magnitudes are often as large as estimates of the return to two years of additional education. Third, the pattern of returns for …
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While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...
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This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students … higher probability of being recommended for the academic track following primary school. Heterogeneity analysis suggests that …
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