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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Kraegpøth, Morten Visby; … - 2015

This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...

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The Effect of Teacher’s Aides on Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Andersen, Simon Calmar; Beuchert, Louise; Nielsen, … - 2022

This study investigates whether successful inclusion of students with special education needs (SEN) in regular … students in regular classrooms and that these students gained academically. While the academic gains evaporated over time, the … treated students were able to stay in regular classrooms throughout compulsory education and largely follow the same …

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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Krægpøth, Morten Visby; … - In: Economics of education review 45 (2015), pp. 1-13

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Estimating the effect of student aid on college enrollment : evidence from a government grant policy reform

Nielsen, Helena Skyt (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid...

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Estimating the effect of student aid on college enrollment : evidence from a government grant polica reform

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Sørensen, Torben; Taber, Christopher - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 2 (2010) 2, pp. 185-215

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An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice

Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Humlum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and...

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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Joensen, Juanna Schröter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...

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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Eriksen, Tine Louise Mundbjerg; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...

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School Starting Age and Crime

Landerso, Rasmus; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in...

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The Impact of Parents’ Years since Migration on Children’s Academic Achievement

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2011

In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find...

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