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unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education. …
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and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … schooling") renders the masses mobile across regions. Alternatively, schools can be implemented in one region alone ("regional …
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incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match …This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …
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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy,...
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emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education … markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and … for households in our sample, reaching about 25% to 100% of monthly per capita income for those choosing private schools …
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...
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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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