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Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence : Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce it?
Demirel, Merve - 2020
persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 … more years of schooling and reduced the effect of parental education on the completion probability of new compulsory …
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2014
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058728
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The Impact of 'Equal Educational Opportunity' Funds : A Regression Discontinuity Design
Ooghe, Erwin - 2011
Many countries provide extra resources to schools serving disadvantaged pupils. We exploit a discontinuity in the assignment of such personnel subsidies in Flanders to estimate the impact on cognitive outcomes via a regression discontinuity (RD) design. Because bias can be substantial in RD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125478
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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
Ichino, Andrea - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147548
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction
Francesconi, Marco - 2016
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Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital : Evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier - 2011
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. While there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123916
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The Effects of 'Girl-Friendly' Schools : Evidence from the Bright School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105987
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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
Burgess, Simon M. - 2014
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on … growing up under a selective education system with those educated under a comprehensive system. Controlling for a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046228