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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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Diversity in schools: immigrants and the educational performance of U.S. born students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...

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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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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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Effects of scaling up private school choice programs on public school students

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2021

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited students...

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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014

stay in their neighbourhood, and this effect is more pronounced in more deprived neighbourhoods. Estimation is based on … importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of …

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Re-testing PISA students one year later : on school value added estimation using OECD-PISA

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...

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Neighbourhood and school poverty simultaneously predicting educational achievement, taking into account timing and duration of exposure

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2019

Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth …, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic … of each other. Throughout the early teenage years the neighbourhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a life …

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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013

In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the … association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually … commitments are influenced by neighbourhood characteristics. We investigate this process for migrant youth, a group that lags …

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