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In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one more year of general education, which, according to the...
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Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the … increased earnings. What is not known is how much earnings will decline due to the school closures. Starting with the fact that … education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …
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the implications of school closures of primary to upper-secondary schools for virus transmission, student learning, and … studies indicate that the initial school closures at least to some extent contributed to a reduction of virus transmission …. However, several studies find that schools could reopen safely, especially when substantial within-school preventive measures …
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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …
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to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …
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The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school … students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest …
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We employ a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to investigate the causal effect of China's Energy Conservation Law (ECL) on the energy efficiency of Chinese firms. Using data from the 2018 China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), we find that the energy regulation has a positive impact on...
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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 …
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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 taught by a standard deviation better than average...
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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 school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …
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