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to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using … register data on ten cohorts of high school students and exploiting within school, between cohort variation, we identify the … (SES) backgrounds. We show that exposure to elite peers in high school does drive enrolment into elite degree programmes …
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during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the SES gaps are partly due …
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program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school …-learning usage gap between academically lower and higher-performing regions.Exploiting the regional variation in school closure …
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estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary … pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school …
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Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon....
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of test scores at the higher secondary level (grade 12) in public schools in Delhi, India. Using the value added approach, we find substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools: over the period spanning grades 11...
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exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of academy school introduction, the first in the 2000s … being a school improvement programme for poorly per-forming schools, the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for …
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Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human resource management (HRM) practices have higher pupil attainment. We find intensive use of HRM...
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