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Longer School Schedules and Early Reading Skills : Effects from a Full-Day School Reform in Chile

Berthelon, Matias - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...

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The Effects of Credit Status on College Attainment and College Completion

Gicheva, Dora - 2012

graduates to estimate how three different measures of credit status affect college attainment and completion rates. After …

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Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education

Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

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The GED

Heckman, James J. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes

Christofides, Louis N. - 2012

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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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe : A Long Run Perspective

Braga, Michela - 2011

In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...

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Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement : Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy

Battistin, Erich - 2013

We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. We study how such effects are mediated by changes in family and school inputs, and in the...

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Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

graduates. Combining our results, we show that tuition fees did not change overall educational attainment much because the …

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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011

Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …

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Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales : What Do We Know?

Manning, Alan - 2006

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically...

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