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The surprisingly dire situation of children's education in rural West Africa : results from the CREO study in Guinea-Bissau
Boone, Peter David; Fazzio, Ila; Jandhyala, Kameshwari; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746566
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Free to improve? : the impact of free school attendance in England
Bertoni, Marco; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Silva, Olmo - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366705
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School choice and neighborhood sorting : equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions
Greaves, Ellen; Turon, Hélène - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495278
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The crime reducing effect of education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969405
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany’s early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499810
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314944
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Job loss at home : children's school performance during the Great Recession in Spain
Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410243
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The solution of the immigrant paradox : aspirations and expectations of children of migrants
Beine, Michel; Montes-Viñas, Ana Cecilia; Zanaj, … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483746
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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 diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237580
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Income inequality in education, and children's schooling attainment in Brazil
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Lam, David - 2015
This paper analyzes the determinants of schooling attainment at the household level for 14-years-old in urban regions of Saõ Paulo and Northeast Brazil, using data from the 1982 PNAD. We find mean schooling of 4.75 years in Saõ Paulo, and 3.25 years in the Northeast, both far short of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976366