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By using PISA 2018 data, we investigate the associations between digital divides and educational inequalities in France … learn remotely are more likely to repeat grades and end their education early, especially where grades repetition is more … common: Spain, Germany, and Italy. Education policies should be designed accordingly. …
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-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …
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from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the application of efficient algorithms, we highlight that the number of …
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education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students … are more likely to end their education early and repeat grades, especially in Spain, Germany and Italy. The distribution …
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
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The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
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We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...
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