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longitudinal data that follow a cohort of Italian students over their compulsory school career, we show that multigrading has a …
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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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The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
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The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...
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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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We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority …
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We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for …
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This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to …
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what would be expected under random teacher-school assignment, segregation by migration background is substantial even …
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