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ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents' destination countries. This …
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
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. Second, we show that a randomized mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models …
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and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …
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analysis, we exploit administrative data on whole populations of UK university students for ten graduate cohorts to investigate …
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The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
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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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Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …
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