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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education

Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024

High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

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Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Stoyanova, Alexandrina P. - 2020

One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...

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Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Flamand, Sabine - 2020

Single parenthood is on the rise everywhere in the world. While previous studies show that acceptance of single-parent households is increasing, some authors point out that single-parent families are often considered as a reality rather than as an ideal. This circumstance may cause negative...

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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education

Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022

We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...

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The Inheritance of Educational Inequality among Young People in Developing Countries

Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015

This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...

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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 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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The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis

Edwards, Ryan; Ortega, Francesc - 2016

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...

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Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …

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Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Tumen, Semih - 2019

Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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