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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine …
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that small increases in shared computer access, one more computer per 40 students, can produce large increases in digital …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of … other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we …
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preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in …
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closed its doors to students from mid-March 2020 to June 2021. During this time, instruction transitioned from face …-to-face to virtual, with students having three options for virtual instruction. In addition to individual KPS student data, the … three basic questions, as well as examining students' race/ethnicity and poverty status, summer learning loss to determine …
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paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …. While native students are mostly influenced by the average quality of their peers, immigrant children are detrimentally …
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This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their … Hungarian secondary school students, three aspects of application decisions are investigated: the number of applications; the …
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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
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the impact of this educational change on students' cognitive abilities, I conduct two separate analyses: first, I exploit … the variation in the curriculum taught to same-aged students at academic-track high school over time and across states to … identify the effect of the increase in class hours on students' crystallized and fluid intelligence scores. Using rich data on …
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Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
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