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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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"Making it count" : evidence from a field study on assessment rules, study incentives and student performance

Chevalier, Arnaud; Dolton, Peter J.; Lührmann, Melanie - 2014

This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in incentives to determine their impact on student effort, and ii) controlled cross-group variation...

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Subject specific league tables and students' application decisions

Chevalier, Arnaud; Jia, Xiaoxuan - 2015

Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students' application decisions. We use subject specific ranking...

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Higher education financing and the educational aspirations of teenagers and their parents

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Hassani-Nezhad, Lena; … - 2020

We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We exploit a reform which introduced a large increase in the maximum university tuition fees and a more redistributive student loan system, both of which varied across the UK's...

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Peer diversity, college performance and educational choices

Chevalier, Arnaud; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; … - 2019

the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching … than the children of non-teacher mothers. This rate of occupational transmission is significantly larger than for several …

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