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fade-out at age nine, with significant treatment effects on cognitive skills (0.67SD) and school achievement tests (0 ….47-0.74SD) that are of a similar magnitude to those observed at the end of the program. There is no impact on other school … can reduce school-age inequalities five years after program completion, yet continued investment may be needed to break …
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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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We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...
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