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' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
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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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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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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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students with special education needs (SEN). As a result, some students are currently excluded from the PISA target population … at the sampling stage, and in some countries, exclusion rates are growing as more and more students are recognized as … countries which call for the inclusion of students with SEN in order to give every student the right to demonstrate their skills …
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