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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signiﬁcantly less likely to enter the...

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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....

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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns

Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017

To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...

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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement combined with psychological examination records, we...

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Female classmates, disruption, and STEM outcomes in disadvantaged schools : evidence from a randomized natural experiment

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2023

Recent research has shown that females make classrooms more conducive to effective learning. We identify the effect of a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...

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Female neighbors, test scores, and careers

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2022

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from...

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Africa's skill tragedy : does teachers' lack of knowledge lead to low student performance?

Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2015

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning. …

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Productivity and organization in Portuguese firms

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; … - 2015

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm production...

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