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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of … the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for …
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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to … instrument for actual school size. We find a robust positive but numerically fairly small relationship between school size and …
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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 advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide … better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value …
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education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public … and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …
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immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …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 …
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error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …
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-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic … in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure …
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mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in …
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high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … peers in business school. However, men's labor market outcomes are not significantly affected. Taken together, our results … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …
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foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …
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