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Can you leave high school behind?
Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …
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The effect of additional funds for low-ability pupils : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of a policy measure that gives secondary schools additional resources for low-ability pupils. Schools are free in deciding how to spend the additional money. I use a nonparametric bounds analysis to estimate upper and lower bounds on the effect of additional...
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The impact of the "Coding Girls" program on high school students' educational choices
Basiglio, Stefania; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara … - 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young female students' interest in programming and...
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Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2022
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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Heterogeneity in high math achievement across schools : evidence from the American Mathematics Competition
Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - 2012
This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet,...
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
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A signaling model of university selection
Anić, Ivan; Božin, Vladimir; Uroševic, Branko - 2016
We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under different rationality assumptions. There are two types of students and two schools. School of graduation serves as a signal of student productivity to prospective employers. The...
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