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This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students' academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer groups'...
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better education outcomes, especially for children. The causal impact of tenure, in particular of homeownership, on education …
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In a globalized, knowledge-based economy, education and training is of great importance for increasing economic and …. According to Eurostat, Romania allocates less money to education than most European Union countries. These allocations reflect … the low level of attention paid to the education and training system. This paper analyses the situation and trends that …
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We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a …
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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education - it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …
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a central and in a school specific examination, we can identify the grading policy of individual schools. We find that … schools which harbour greater shares of disadvantaged students tend to set lower standards. This effect is largest in the …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524932
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil?s relative age within the first grade of primary school on math and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil?s test in 16 different...
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