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the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to …
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. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …. Investigating the reasons for children not attending school, we find that the beneficiary households become more likely to send …
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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 … one outcome - in never attending school - the native-refugee gap persists even for children who arrive before age 8. Data …
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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …
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This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …
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outcomes remain disputed. This paper evaluates the effects of the introduction of a more comprehensive upper secondary school … performing students. Though one important motive behind the policy change was to enable all upper secondary school graduates to …
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Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but … from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on grades only. The reform imposed strong incentives for school …
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