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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …

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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - CESifo - 2015

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Bergman, Peter - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Access to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Fiva, Jon H. - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases

Bell, Clive - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196229

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