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, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), make inquires to Swedish schools about … admission for their children to the compulsory preschool class. Our results reveal that Swedish schools discriminated against … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …
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We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...
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general education has led to an increase in hourly wages of men, but not of women, who completed basic vocational schools. …
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being …
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Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between-cohort variation in the age composition of different...
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religious schools exist, but we find that in most geographic areas school "choice" at the pre-university level is effectively … limited to public schools - despite their inadequate quality. Although there has not been much change in the attendance of … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …
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as well as qualitative data on youth experiences in public, private, and religious schools. Our findings indicate that … ensure greater equality in education, there is an urgent need to test mechanisms for ensuring accountability in schools. …
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and …
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We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to … schools through lotteries, the reform of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools through … alliance with elite schools. Moreover, an ordinary primary school can be promoted to key elementary school without involving …
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This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...
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