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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …. Educational losses may translate into significant national income losses over time. …
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adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
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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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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students …. Similar results are found by considering days of absence from school. In the longer run, students who cannot learn remotely … on disadvantaged students and schools should be designed accordingly. …
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consumption, government social expenditures, and the progressivity of the income tax system have negative effects on student …
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results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … families where only fathers earn, those where both parents earn negatively predict student effectiveness, while religion, caste … and parents' education have no predictive power. There is some evidence that principals' rating of teachers and value …
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expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …
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