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Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008

The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...

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School tenure and student achievement

Fan, Wen - 2011

While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least...

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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy

Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?

Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022

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Are we spending too many years in school? : causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration

Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010

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Selective secondary education and school participation in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Malawi

Hoop, Jacobus de - 2010 - Version 15 April 2010

Large scale tracking policies, allowing academically apt pupils to enter a select group of secondary schools, can be found in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, evidence on the impact of these policies on school outcomes, especially school participation, is limited. This paper fills this gap...

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Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? : evidence from Ecuador

Hidalgo, Diana; Onofa, Mercedes; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2010

free uniforms to primary school children in Ecuador, we find that the interventionhas a significantly negative impact on … attendance. An explanation is thatparents who pay for their children’s uniforms (the control group) feel more committedto the … school than parents who got the uniforms for free (the treated) andtherefore encourage their children to attend school …

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis

Haan, Monique de - 2008

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis

Haan, Monique de - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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Birth order, family size and educational attainment

Haan, Monique de - 2005

number of children are twins at last birth and the sex mix of the first two children. The effect of birth order is identified … estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational … between children from higher or lower educated parents. Also the age gap between children does not affect the effect of birth …

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