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Information provision and postgraduate studies

Berkes, Jan; Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2019

undertake postgraduate studies. We follow the students further and provide evidence on actual enrollment one year after …

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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England

Gibbons, Stephen - 2011

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …

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The Good, the Bad and the Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

Lavy, Victor Chaim; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

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Moving into the Projects: Social Housing Neighbourhoods and School Performance in England

Weinhardt, Felix - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010

housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old (9th grade) students in England. Neighbourhoods with markedly …

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The Importance of Rank Position

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset tracking over two million students in England from primary …

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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance

Weinhardt, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal impact, this …

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In brief...Top of the class

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Boys may be better off not going to the school with high-performing peers, according to research by Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt, which explores how much impact there is on later confidence and exam results from where a child ranks in primary school. They find that being ranked in the top...

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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal …

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Viele Kinder von Geflüchteten besuchen eine Kita oder Grundschule: Nachholbedarf bei den unter Dreijährigen und der Sprachförderung von Schulkindern

Gambaro, Ludovica; Liebau, Elisabeth; Peter, Frauke H.; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 19, pp. 379-386

Der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) oder einer Grundschule stellt für Kinder mit Fluchthintergrund einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Integration und Teilhabe an der deutschen Gesellschaft dar. Im Kontext des Zuzugs von mehr als 890 000 Schutzsuchenden im Jahr 2015 untersucht dieser...

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