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Family Networks and School Enrolment : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Angelucci, Manuela - 2009

extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames … family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA … the characteristics of extended family. We find PROGRESA only raises secondary enrolment among households that are …

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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012

This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where children are a source of old age transfers. The amount of old age transfers made by children as...

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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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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Farré, Lidia - 2015

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...

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Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice

Caceres-Delpiano, Julio - 2018

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, and the difference across municipalities in 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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School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation

Calsamiglia, Caterina - 2020

We embed the problem of public school choice design in a model of local provision of education. We define cardinal (student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in a centralised school choice procedure. With the...

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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions : Causal Evidence

Falk, Armin - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...

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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions

Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - 2021

We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable (with error), we investigate the effect of risk aversion on the probability of entering higher...

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Subjective Beliefs and Schooling Decisions

Belzil, Christian - 2021

This paper considers the estimation of sequential schooling decisions made by agents who are endowed with subjective beliefs about their own ability. I use unique Italian panel data which provide information on i) the curvature of the per-period utility function, ii) schooling decisions, iii)...

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