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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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Making the (letter) grade: The incentive effects of mandatory pass/fail courses

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

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Examination behavior: Gender differences in preferences?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2013

preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near … initial quizzes can either be accepted as is, or students can attempt to improve their marks by answering similar quiz … questions on the exam. Results suggest that female students are more likely to take initial quizzes and receive a seminar bonus …

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Parental unemployment and children's school performance

Öster, Anna - 2006

This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level data for all children completing lower secondary school in Sweden in 1990 directly moving on to three years of upper secondary school. We control for family and individual...

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School vouchers and student achievement: Recent evidence, remaining questions

Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Barrow, Lisa - 2008

gains for students offered education vouchers, most of which are not statistically different from zero. Further, what little …

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Externality and behavioural change effects of a non-randomised CCT programme: Heterogeneous impact on the demand for health and education

Teixeira, Clarissa Gondim; Soares, Fabio Veras; Ribas, … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay's conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on the demand for healthcare and education, and how much of this impact was due to the cash transfers and/or due to changes in behaviour/preferences, possibly as an effect of...

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Public funding and enrolment into higher education in Europe

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela - 2002

In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel …

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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica

Duryea, Suzanne; Morrison, Andrew - 2004

Conditional transfer programs are becoming a common approach to influence household decisions. The evidence to date is that these programs are good at promoting certain outcomes such as school attendance, but that other outcomes such as reducing child labor are more difficult to achieve. This...

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Freshman learning communities, college performance, and retention

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Moore, Robert E.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2005

This paper applies a standard treatment effects model to determine that participation in Freshman Learning Communities (FLCs) improves academic performance and retention. Not controlling for individual self-selection into FLC participation leads one to incorrectly conclude that the impact is the...

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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment

López Bóo, Florencia - 2008

This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over 'typical' years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...

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