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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …
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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …
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performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …
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first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …
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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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Education has a fundamental role in promoting the integration of students with an immigrant background in host … outcomes for students with an immigrant background as, among others, they need to overcome adversities related to displacement …, socio-economic disadvantage and language barriers. Building on the 2018 Report “The Resilience of Students with an Immigrant …
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gender segregation in occupational preferences. Students also differ by gender in selecting particular fields of employment … within status categories. These differences make up the horizontal segregation of students' expectations and, in PISA 2006 …
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also on the student’s progress through education, as those children who were the youngest in their grade cohort at entry … parents of the initial disadvantage experienced by the youngest children in their first years of school. The paper concludes … International Student Assessment (PISA), this paper provides a comparative analysis of the impact of a student’s month of birth on …
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International Survey (TALIS) of teachers of 15-year-old students with school-level data from the Programme for International Student … Assessment (PISA), a survey of 15-year-old students. The purpose of this study is to present an exploratory analysis of the … needs for support. Survey responses were collected from teachers and students in eight countries. Data from 26 610 teachers …
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In 2015, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked students to describe their well-being in … addition to collecting information on students’ subject-specific skills. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and … students’ well-being. …
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