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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel
Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021
This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...
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The Gender Gap in Top Jobs – The Role of Overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022
overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has implications for how firms recruit and promote workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177786
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The Return to College, Marriage, and Intergenerational Mobility
Gould, Eric D. - 2023
This paper examines the idea that the increasing return to college is reducing intergenerational mobility by differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469603
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closure: Learning Loss in Mathematics in Primary Education
Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2021
Italy was the first Western country hit by Covid-19 in February 2020, responding with a tight lockdown and full school closure until the end of the school year. This paper estimates the effect of the pandemic and school closure on the math skills of primary school pupils in Italy. We compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882361
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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 … peer inequality. Our results provide evidence on the role of inequality in peer groups for long-run educational outcomes …
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The Impact of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Student Performance: Evidence from the Dual-Teacher Program
Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang; Yang, Fanzheng; Yu, Li - 2023
We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...
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A Lost Generation? Impact of COVID-19 on High School Students' Achievements
Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2023
This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at the end of upper secondary school who are about to enter the labour market or start university without having had the opportunity to recover. Using longitudinal data from...
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The Risks and Benefits of School Integration for Participating Students: Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2018
This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies...
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Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
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