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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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We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes,...
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This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …
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students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …
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recent foreign students in The Netherlands. The life course experiences of these students in the host, both on the labour … induces them to leave. Forming a family in The Netherlands makes the students more prone to stay. The size of the impact of … groups based on the country of birth. The empirical analyses reveal that employment induces students to stay and unemployment …
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with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool …
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The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...
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Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
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This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax - transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...
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results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …
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