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Bullied because younger than my mates? : the effect of age rank on victimization at school
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Paccagnella, Marco; Tonello, Marco - 2017
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 school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119552
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464439
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357422
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Drivers of student performance : evidence from higher secondary public schools in Delhi
Goel, Deepti; Barooah, Bidisha - 2018
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 taught by a standard deviation better than average...
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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance
Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019
Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational System (INVALSI) for school years 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 matched to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149251
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Human capital and climate change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for proclimate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law...
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Identity and learning : a study on the effect of student-teacher gender matching on learning outcomes
Bhattacharya, Sukanta; Dasgupta, Aparajita; Mandal, Kumarjit - 2020
In this paper we examine whether students' and teachers' identity play any role in the learning outcome of students. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which explains such interaction through role model effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389533
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129878
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … measure for the 1997 reform, we find that, on average, one additional middle school class increases the probability of … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
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Impact of early childhood school intervention on enrollment and learning outcomes : evaluation of a public program in India
Bhattacharya, Nilanjan; Pakrashi, Debayan; Saha, Sarani; … - 2023
We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple difference, and synthetic control methodologies, we find...
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