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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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We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...
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Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …
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The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …
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School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we …
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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 … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …
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We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …
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hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …
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This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …
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as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …
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