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selective system. This paper presents the results of a field experiment that provided Grade 12 students in Chile with tailored … students change their intensive margin decisions: they choose careers and schools with lower expected wages and lower …
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50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …
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education for students with disabilities in Chile. Enrollment rates in primary and secondary education in Chile differ by less … than 2 percentage points for students with or without disabilities, but there is an approximately 17 percentage point gap … decreased the probability of students with disabilities taking the admission test to tertiary education and enrolling in high …
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outcomes between richer and poorer students who leave school with good attainment levels. From a set of policies aimed at … targets the supply side by enforcing universities to give preferential admission to poorer students who graduate near the top … of their secondary school class. This policy would substantially narrow earnings gaps between richer and poorer students …
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We study the effectiveness of climate change policy in a model with multiple non-renewable resources that differ in their carbon content. We find that, when allowing some time between announcement and implementation of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions, emissions from non-renewable energy...
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This paper examines the price impact of trading due to expected changes in the FTSE 100 index composition, which employs publicly-known objective criteria to determine membership. Hence, it provides a natural context to investigate anticipatory trading effects. We propose a panel-regression...
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