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1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program …
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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …
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We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
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We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541267
1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566337
We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential changes in the labor market. The analysis is performed in the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous...
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competences. We find substantial pay penalties for over-education for both sexes and for overskilling in the case of men only …. When both education and skill mismatch variables are included together in the model only overskilling reduces job …
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bilingual. The dominant group chooses the education system, and then individuals decide whether to attend school. While agents … implementation of the socially optimal education system, while the unilingual system is too often implemented under minority rule. In … bilingualism in education may not be related to the size of language groups. …
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