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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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Time preferences, study effort, and academic performance

Non, Jan Adrianus; Tempelaar, Dirk T. - 2015

We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...

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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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Education, disappointment and optimal policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success

Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2015

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Using predictive analytics to track students : evidence from a seven-college experiment

Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - 2021

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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