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How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?
Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462344
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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 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064014
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Money, mentoring and making friends : the impact of a multidimensional access program on student performance
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla; O'Reilly, Patricia; … - 2010 - Version 4.8, 7th April 2010
to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726078
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Health inequality over the life-cycle
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003995457
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Are we spending too many years in school? : causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942013
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Health inequality over the life-cycle
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009377489
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726079
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School attendance and literacy before the famine : a simple baronial analysis
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2010
This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling and literacy in the 1820s and 1840s. -- Ireland ; Economic history ; Literacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728952
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Under pressure? : the effect of peers on outcomes of young adults
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728958
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Class size effects : evidence using a new estimation technique
Denny, Kevin; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2010
This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729658