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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 identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
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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 thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...
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Competition and educational quality : evidence from the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond; Jong, Matthijs de - 2009
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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. 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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School choice and competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377312
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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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The consequences of implementing a child care voucher : evidence from Australia, The Netherlands and USA
Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009
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The consequences of implementing a child care voucher : evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA
Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009
In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378951
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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408408
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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the...
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