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This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …
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-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families …
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education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …
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potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in …
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about 10%. I also find that mother's education is more important than father's education in the decision on the choice of …
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' education, and economic factors (expenditures per capita and price) significantly affect whether children wear eyeglasses in the …
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany’s early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...
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potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146345
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317253