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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

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

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers

Zimmermann, Markus - 2019

likely to attend tertiary education, less likely to attend vocational education, and more likely to end without qualified … ambitions allow higher skilled migrants to hieventertiary education despite their less favourable background characteristics. On … education, may be diverted from vocational training as a more viable alternative. These patterns are stronger for boys than for …

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Do conditional cash transfers (CCT) raise educational attainment? : a case study of Juntos in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2017

This paper empirically investigates the impacts of Peru's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme JUNTOS upon educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years....

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Social mobility in Germany

Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021

expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …

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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina

Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022

downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …

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Preferred field of study and academic performance

Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...

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Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk : Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia

Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017

Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...

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