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To segregate or to integrate : education politics and democracy

De la Croix, David (contributor); … - 2007

some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider …

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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain

Devereux, Paul J. (contributor); Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2008

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...

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Taking the easy way out : how the GED testing program induces students to drop out

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2008

We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); … - 2006

It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children's school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it would be advisable to quell work in the interest of schooling...

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

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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Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England and Wales : what do we know?

Manning, Alan (contributor); … - 2006

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one … with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which … do not solve this problem. -- tracking ; selective secondary schooling ; comprehensive schools …

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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross … associated with the prevalence of selective choice of pupils by schools. Low-segregation countries such as those in the Nordic … area and Scotland have negligible selection in schools. High segregation countries like Austria, Germany and Hungary have …

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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...

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Estimating the firm's labor supply curve in a "new monopsony" framework : school teachers in Missouri

Ransom, Michael R.; Sims, David P. - 2009

In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we estimate the average labor supply elasticity to public school districts in Missouri. We take...

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Do means-tested school lunch subsidies change children's weekly consumption patterns?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2009

This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts in the financing of and demand for lunch and nutrition programs. Using data on fifth grade public...

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