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learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …
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This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at …-in-differences models to analyse the performance of two cohorts of students in Italy: a cohort that has never been exposed to the pandemic … and a cohort that graduated in 2021. We find that the pandemic had a huge negative impact on students' performance in …
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This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...
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Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
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the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees …
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that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories …
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countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that …. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the achievement gaps of some migrant students while leaving unaffected or … school sector appear detrimental. Migrant students' achievement relative to their native-born peers suffers as educational …
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We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …
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We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high …-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data … consistently indicated that all students benefited similarly from teachers. Overall, systematic differential teacher effects were …
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We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...
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