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selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …
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This paper empirically examines the educational selectivity of United States immigrants and of those that return to their source country. Data from the 1970 to 2000 U.S. Census and the 2010 American Community Survey are employed. Ten countries are selected for the study based on their historical...
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primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that...
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … intermediate inputs in education for treatment students. …
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This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …
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age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the …-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for …
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