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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many …
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Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school. One strategy to reduce this risk is to occupy youth in after-school programs (ASP). Yet, the question remains: how does peer group composition affect the effectiveness of an ASP?...
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composition of student bodies. We study how these integration policies interact, using a heterogeneous agent overlapping … effects. At the public school level, we simulate an integration policy that randomly shifts students across schools. For … college, we consider an income-based affirmative action policy. Public school integration weakens the link between residential …
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socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …
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We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating … students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post …
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) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true …
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outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still … the comprehensive information service when they were young. The results suggest that individuals, who went to school in …
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feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between … expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks the variance of the individual belief distributions. Guided by a simple …
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high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …' beliefs are subject to information friction and Bayesian learning. …
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