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Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...

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The effects of free secondary school track choice: a disaggregated synthetic control approach

Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggre-gated synthetic control...

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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices

Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...

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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?

Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015

Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...

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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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"I wish i knew ..." : misperceived ability, school track counseling services and performances in upper secondary education

Bernardi, Martino; Bratti, Massimiliano; De Simone, … - 2014

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents) have all the relevant information they need to make...

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Does the teacher beat the test? : the additional value of teacher assessment in predicting student ability

Feron, Eva; Schils, Trudie; Weel, Bas ter - 2015

This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial track allocation, track switching in the first three...

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Trends of school effects on student achievement : evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92

Konstantopoulos, Spyros (contributor) - 2005

The impact of schools on student achievement has been of great interest for the last four decades. This study examines trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are...

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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...

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Parents and peers : parental neighbourhood- and school-level variation in individual neighbourhood outcomes over time

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US shows that children from … the parental background, the parental neighbourhood, and a compositional measure of the school environment, on the … neighbourhood trajectories of Dutch adolescents after leaving the parental home. We use longitudinal register data from the …

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