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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...
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The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking
Canaan, Serena - 2019
Grouping students by ability is a controversial issue, and its impacts are likely to depend on the type of tracking students are exposed to. This paper studies a reform that moved French schools from a rigorous tracking system, which assigned students to tracks with significantly different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867987
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The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation : Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2021
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
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The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice : A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggre-gated synthetic control...
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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy : The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2021
Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or magnifying the impact of parents on children's school choices and therefore on intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316959
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
Neilson, Chris - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118273
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088325
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Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2019
Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth …, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic … of each other. Throughout the early teenage years the neighbourhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868009
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Re-Testing PISA Students One Year Later : On School Value Added Estimation Using Oecd-Pisa
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061949
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement Among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086214