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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...

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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a

Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015

This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...

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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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School integration of refugee children: Evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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Home broadband and human capital formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

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Girls, girls, girls: gender composition and female school choice

Schneeweis, Nicole; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009

, although the foundations for career choices are certainly laid earlier, during education. Educational experts claim that female …

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Early tracking and the misfortune of being young

Schneeweis, Nicole; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the … 2006 to show that the effect is long-lasting in urban areas. Therefore, the education system fails to provide a mechanism …

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In a small moment: Class size and moral hazard in the Mezzogiorno

Angrist, Joshua D.; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - 2015

An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...

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