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Alcohol and student performance : estimating the effect of legal access
Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2011
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232557
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Students' academic self-perception
Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - 2007
the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566273
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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...
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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450111
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898128
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Urban density and pupil attainment
Gibbons, Steve (contributor); Silva, Olmo (contributor) - 2007
We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in … environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urbanised … schools. To control for this, we exploit changes in urban density faced by pupils during compulsory transition from Primary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579981
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The introduction of academy schools to England's education
Eyles, Andrew; Machin, Stephen - 2015
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies are state schools that are allowed to run in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309041
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Neighborhood quality and student performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696034
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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014
rich auxiliary information on all schools and pupils sampled for PISA whether responding or not, including data from two … large-scale administrative sources on pupils' results in national public exams, which correlate highly with the PISA target …
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607794