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Cannabis Use and its Effects on Health, Education and Labor Market Success
van Ours, Jan C.; Williams, Jenny - 2014
Cannabis is the most popular illegal drug. Its legal status is typically justified on the grounds that cannabis use has … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …
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The effect of grade retention on secondary school performance : evidence from a natural experiment
Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; … - 2018
We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative legislation. In 2010, the rule that forced schools to retain up to a 5% of students was abolished. Exploiting variation in schools' retention rates in a...
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The Effect of Grade Retention on Secondary School Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ferreira, Maria - 2018
We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative legislation. In 2010, the rule that forced schools to retain up to a 5% of students was abolished. Exploiting variation in schools' retention rates in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915709
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Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?
Szlendak, Zachary; Mansfield, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Most U.S. high school courses separate classrooms into standard and honors tracks. This paper characterizes the efficiency and distributional impact of changing the share of students enrolling in honors classrooms. Using a sorting model where students choose tracks by course but schools...
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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Does smoking affect schooling? Evidence from teenagers in rural China
Zhao, Meng; Konishi, Yoshifumi; Glewwe, Paul - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 584-598
Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths’ expected returns to education and lower their motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China, this study investigates the effect of youth smoking...
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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra
Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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Improving education quality in South Africa
Murtin, Fabrice - 2013
South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039571
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Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition : Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes
Kang, Le; Lei, Ziteng; Song, Yang; Zhang, Peng - 2021
We document gender differences in reactions to failure in the National College Entrance Exam, an extremely high-stakes exam that solely determines college admission outcomes for almost all teenagers in China. Using unique administrative data in Ningxia Province and a regression-discontinuity...
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