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This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period …
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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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In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We … conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …
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and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the …This article estimates the market value of public education by comparing standardized test scores of students in public … schools. This article uses Brazilian test score data, which are particularly good. The main results are not surprising. Pre …
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The use of lotteries is advocated to desegregate schools. We study lottery quotas embedded in the two most common … students, and the student composition at schools, using theory and experiments. We find that the lottery quota strengthens …
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Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
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