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Free to improve? : the impact of free school attendance in England
Bertoni, Marco; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Silva, Olmo - 2023
considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two secondary free schools with different … schools have a strong positive impact on student test scores on average. However, we also find heterogeneous effects: the "no …. Both schools similarly reduce student absences and school mobility. Peer quality, teacher characteristics, and inspectorate …
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The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers : evidence from North Carolina middle schools
Ahn, Thomas; Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother … tongue is positively associated with reading achievement and negatively associated with mathematics achievement. …
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Does technology in schools affect repetition, dropout and enrollment? : evidence from Peru
Cristia, Julian; Czerwonko, Alejo; Garofalo, Pablo - 2014
Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these … Internet access in secondary public schools in Peru. Rich longitudinal school-level data from 2001 to 2006 are used to … access in schools on repetition, dropout and initial enrollment. Large sample sizes allow ruling out even modest effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246125
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Open enrolment and student achievement
Friesen, Jane; Harris, Benjamin Cerf; Woodcock, Simon D. - 2013
stem from increased competition among schools, rather than directly through expanded choice opportunities. Among students …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …
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Long-term effects of school size on students' outcomes
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Smith, Nina - 2014
mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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The effects of school integration : evidence from a randomized desegregation program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
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School entry, compulsory schooling, and human capital accumulation : evidence from Michigan
Hemelt, Steven W.; Rosen, Rachel B. - 2016
the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457926
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498389
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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper
Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014
data comprises class-level information on all public secondary schools in the state. We find that binding teacher …
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