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The study provides estimates of the private returns to education in Pakistan by using a random sample of 850 wage … provided a novel contribution by providing an in-depth analysis of return on investment for education by focusing on both … aspects of education like quantity and quality of education and in case of quantity, education is treated both as a continuous …
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We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …
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We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …
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We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on …
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During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in … rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late … 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and variation across birth cohorts, we estimate the returns to …
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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief updating patterns regarding academic ability in a large sample of students transitioning from...
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