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combines a review of the emerging international literature with new evidence from German longitudinal time-use surveys. Based … and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … year later. In a value-added model, learning time increases with daily online class instruction, but not with other school …
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collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …-achievers disproportionately replaced learning time with detrimental activities such as TV or computer games rather than with activities more …
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Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There,...
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For …
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University fees have recently trebled in England, prompting fears that young people may be put off from participating in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the...
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effects on schooling outcomes and, more so, for less able pupils. …
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Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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Grade retention offers students a chance to catch up with unmastered material but also leads to less labor-market experience by delaying graduation and labor-market entry. This is the first paper to quantify this trade-off, using an exit exam cutoff of Dutch academic secondary schools, where...
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-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 funds on exam results of pupils. First I investigate what can be …
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Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...
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