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education in schools and universities to noninstitutional forms of learning such as home study. The dynamic effects of shifts in … education policy as well as their welfare implications are also calculated in the paper. …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
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This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...
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We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …
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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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disadvantaged members of the society. The main objectives of the paper are to describe to what extent the education and healthcare …
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