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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana … in families with a history of welfare receipt. The relationships between marijuana use and both high school completion … and achieving a university entrance score appear to stem from selectivity into the use of marijuana. In contrast, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224588
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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Tronh; … - In: The economic record : er 91 (2015) 293, pp. 247-266
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343007
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'High'-School : The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2013
early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana … in families with a history of welfare receipt. The relationships between marijuana use and both high school completion … and achieving a university entrance score appear to stem from selectivity into the use of marijuana. In contrast, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071748
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The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes
Mart, Joaquim; Perini, Lionel - 2013
In this paper we use longitudinal data on Swiss adolescents to nvestigate the impact of cannabis use on short … indicate that high school students who smoke cannabis skip on additional half day of school per month and are 15-20% more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223482
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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014
The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490388
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Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany
Esser, Hartmut - 2015
It is still taken for granted that (early) ability tracking increases the impact of social origin on achievement in (lower) secondary education, but without gains in the overall level. This contribution addresses the question of whether this common conviction is really correct. The various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021939
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School Age, Student Achievement and Structural Breaks
Miankhel, Adil Khan - 2022
The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students, teachers, leaders, parents, community and interacts with content, resources and societal progress have important implications on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289382
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Universal preschool programs and long-term child outcomes : a systematic review
Dietrichson, Jens; Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Nielsen, … - 2018
What are the long-term effects of universal preschool programs on child outcomes? We review 26 studies using natural experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from third grade to adulthood. Studies comparing...
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Are We Making Progress? New Evidence on Aboriginal Education Outcomes in Provincial and Reserve Schools
Richards, John - 2014
This Commentary summarizes new evidence on Aboriginal education from the National Household Survey (NHS) that accompanied the 2011 census. There is some good news: young adults aged 20-24 at the time of the census who identified as North American Indian/First Nation and were living off-reserve,...
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Does it pay to attend more selective high schools? : regression discontinuity evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Li, Bo; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2022
We examine the effect of attending academically selective high schools on test scores, by leveraging administrative data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in 2010 with high school student records. The standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470186