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We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … school choice becomes available in a student's educational path. We find that the impacts of vouchers on PSE outcomes are …
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candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design …
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...
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We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing...
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This study uses the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data, the only cross-national data having measured educational achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate educational achievement decline of fourth graders across 21 European countries between 2016 and...
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We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide … ; selectivity ; comprehensive school system ; education performance ; inequality ; international student achievement test ; TIMSS …
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In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …
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effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …
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