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School tenure and student achievement
Fan, Wen - 2011
While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least...
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The Dynamics of School and Work in Rural Bangladesh
Ridao-Cano, Crist??bal; Canals-Cerd??, Jos?? - 2013
Canals-Cerd?? and Ridao-Cano investigate the effect of work on the school progress of rural Bangladeshi children. They … effect on school progress and are able to measure this effect for different groups of children. Their results highlight the … these policies by efforts to improve the adverse environment that working children face. The authors evaluate the dynamic …
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If You Build It, Will They Come? School Availability and School Enrollment in 21 Poor Countries
Filmer, Deon - 2013
Increasing the supply of schools is commonly advocated as a policy intervention to promote schooling. Analysis of the relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas in low-income countries (including some of the...
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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?
Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022
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Are we spending too many years in school? : causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
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Stand and Deliver : Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2013
We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially...
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The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement : Evidence of Disruption?
Voldby Beuchert, Louise - 2016
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
Filmer, Deon; Schady, Norbert - 2012
Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. The authors evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. They show...
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