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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Urban density and pupil attainment

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2007

We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in … environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urbanised … schools. To control for this, we exploit changes in urban density faced by pupils during compulsory transition from Primary to …

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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...

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International Evidence on School Tracking: A Review

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 07 (2009) 1, pp. 26-34

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Adolescents' educational attainment and school experiences in contemporary Ireland

Darmody, Merike; McCoy, Selina; Smyth, Emer - 2007

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2003

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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? A cross-country analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2012

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

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