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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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investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
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Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …
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in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds …
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We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and 2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in...
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A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …
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This paper examines the relationship between teacher unionization, student achievement and teachers' pay using a cross-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within-pupil variation in achievement and find that union...
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System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A … quarter of parents ever use it; adoption follows an S-shape; significant spillovers occur along intensive but not extensive …
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that these effects are most pronounced for students exposed to school closings. Furthermore, students initially enrolled in …
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