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School choice and competition
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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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For … lottery numbers. Losing the admission lottery for one's first-ranked school affects the characteristics of the assigned school …
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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …
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Is there a hidden technical potential?
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 1996
This paper analyzes the determinants of choosing a technical study at university level and of persistence in it. We find that - in the Netherlands - there is a low correlation between the probability of a student choosing a technical study and the probability of persistence in it. This implies...
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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020
We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and expected wage growth per major. We build a model that allows us to estimate these factors semiparametrically and that corrects for selection bias. We estimate the model on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228687
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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Obvious mistakes in a strategically simple college admissions environment
Shorrer, Ran I.; Sóvágó, Sándor - 2017
In a centralized marketplace that was designed to be simple, we identify participants whose choices are dominated. Using administrative data from Hungary, we show that college applicants make obvious mistakes: they forgo the free opportunity to receive a tuition waiver worth thousands of...
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School choice and competition : evidence from the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003787156
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The heterogeneous effects of early track assignment on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and … too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026043
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Decision and strategies in a sequential search experiment
Sonnemans, Joep - 1997
works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283474