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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations
Bach, Maximilian - 2021
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794438
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237580
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239463
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Mentoring and schooling decisions: causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269722
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Constrained school choice in Egypt
Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017
This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed … private schools at the pre-university level, we find that attendance of private higher education institutions has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120881
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234470
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The roles of state aid and local conditions in elementary school test-score gaps
Bradbury, Katharine L. - 2021 - This version: November 2020
Equal educational opportunity is a core American value. Yet many children of low-income or minority racial or ethnic status attend public schools that are lower quality compared with those that white children or high-income children attend. And data indicate that, on average, low-income or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433352
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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703371
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College is Not Enough : Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps
Emmons, William R. - 2019
Differences in college and post-graduate degree attainment alone explain less than half of Black-White and Hispanic-White wealth gaps in a standard wealth regression. Differences in family structure and measures of luck such as income windfalls and inheritances explain even less. Measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902288
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Self-Selection in School Choice
Chen, Li - 2018
We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences before knowing their priorities at schools. A student self-selects if she decides not to apply to some schools despite being desirable. We give a theoretical explanation for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935131