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In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The … differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and took similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …
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Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in...
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In this paper, I estimate the differential effects of compulsory schooling laws on school quality between black and white schools in the United States segregated South. I employ state-level data on length of school terms and pupil–teacher ratios to examine these responses. Other literature has...
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This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These projections help to compensate for the lack of long-term data on universal pre-K programs, while using metrics that relate test scores to social benefits. Combining test-score...
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reading but not necessarily in math for non-ELL students whose primary language is English, controlling for unobserved fixed … sensitive to the frequency of within classroom ability grouping usage, gender, and household income level of non-ELL children. …
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-groups by race, income, and gender, and across institutions. Male, minority, and aided students are affected most strongly by …
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Investigation of peer effects on achievement with sample survey data on schools may mean that only a random sample of the population of peers is observed for each individual. This generates measurement error in peer variables similar in form to the textbook case of errors-in-variables, resulting...
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effects in models where peer academic ability is measured in the aggregate. However, models that control for own-gender and … other gender peer performance identify strong, positive, and statistically significant male peer influence on male students …
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Failure in US high school courses is common, but little is known about its effects. This paper investigates the extent to which course repeaters in high school mathematics courses exert negative externalities on their course-mates. Using individual and school-specific course fixed effects to...
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Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental reform in Germany reduced the length of academic track schooling by one year, while increasing instruction hours in the remaining school years to provide students with a very...
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