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Good or bad? Short- versus long-term effects of multigrading on child achievement

Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard, Patrick; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2022

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students' short- versus long-term academic achievement in Italy. We cope with the endogeneity of multigrading (and class size) through an instrumental variable identification strategy based...

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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

have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...

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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio …

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Measuring externalities in program evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - 2006

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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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

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …

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The role of information in the take-up of student loans

Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2008 - This version: April 2008

Policies need not only to be well designed to effectively address market failures, but their parameters also need to be part of agents’ information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to alleviate liquidity constraints. Despite generous...

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The impact of cash transfers on school enrollment : evidence from Ecuador

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ponce, Juan; Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2008 - This version: February 2008

This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression...

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Capital market failure, adverse selection and equity financing of higher education

Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2005

We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market … solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some … equityfinancing of education coupled to provision of some income insuranceis the optimal way to finance education when private markets …

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Gender peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2010

Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on … achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We …

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