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Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? : evidence from an empirical matching model
Britton, Jack; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David - 2023
Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We use it to simulate a wide set of policies aimed...
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University quotas and peers' achievement
Giardili, Soledad - 2018
In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a 50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the academic performance of non-targeted students....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812152
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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London
Ovidi, Marco - 2021
Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in London primary schools. I exploit as good as random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395616
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Report cards : parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti
Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023
This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014460740
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively … neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th … found to be not different than India's. Finally, the paper reviews briefly efforts of the government to expand TVET at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211012
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Leaving no one behind in Ghana through university education : interrogating spatial, gender and class inequalities
Ayelazuno, Jasper Abembia; Aziabah, Maxwell A. - 2021
The number of higher education institutions in Ghana has soared in the last three decades and university enrolments have shot up in tandem. Yet the number of Ghanaians living in poverty is higher than ever before, and social inequality is on the rise. Against this backdrop, this paper critically...
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802982
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495981
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Do larger school grants improve educational attainment? : evidence from urban Mexico
Araujo, María Caridad; Martínez, María Adelaida; … - 2018
We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...
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The impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
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