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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014
The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
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A distributional analysis of upper secondary school performance
Cullinan, John; Denny, Kevin; Flannery, Darragh - 2018
We examine the relationship between the distribution of upper secondary school performance and a range of individual … and school level characteristics using unconditional quantile regression methods and data from Ireland. We find that …
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Who gains from the demographic dividend? : Forecasting income by age
Lee, Sang-hyop (contributor); Mason, Andrew (contributor) - 2006
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2009
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household Survey (GHS). Reanalysing this dataset, we find much smaller returns of...
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School tenure and student achievement
Fan, Wen - 2011
While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time … one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … longer own school tenure but suffer from that of their peers. Using the number of times the student moved school during the …
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The role of private schools in education markets
Neale, Derek - 2007
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School quality and effectiveness
Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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School closures and implications for student outcomes: evidence from Lithuania
Jakučionytė, Eglė; Pusevaitė, Indrė; Singh, Swapnil - 2022
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Native-born-immigrant wage gap revisited : the role of market imperfections in Canada
Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - 2022
Most studies investigating the poor earnings performance of immigrants implicitly assume that human capital endowments determine actual earnings, and that immigrant-nativeborn wage gaps can be analyzed in terms of those earnings. In this study we claim that this assumption is not validated by...
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3% in 2000, and 11% of new permanent residents, up from 7%...
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