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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added: A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin; Frisancho, Verónica; Krishna, Kala M.; … - CESifo - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students’ success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671573
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094337
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Entry Through the Narrow Door : The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Machin, Stephen J. - 2018
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good employment prospects. This paper examines the consequences of just failing a key high stakes national examination in English taken at the end of compulsory schooling in England. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916530
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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979105
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect investments in education and how much reducing these frictions can improve student achievement. In Los Angeles, a random sample of parents was provided detailed information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020574
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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bergman, Peter - 2017
implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953889
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Preferences, Selection, and Value Added : A Structural Approach Applied to Turkish Exam High Schools
Akyol, S. Pelin - 2013
What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which school attributes seem to matter? Do selective schools con-tribute to their students' success, or is their performance attributable to the higher ability of the students they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079378