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Delaying the bell : the effects of longer school days on adolescent motherhood in Chile
Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias E. - 2009
mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910659
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Delaying the Bell : The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
Kruger, Diana I. - 2010
mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150285
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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223667
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The impact of all-day schools on student achievement : evidence from extending school days in German primary schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2020
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299552
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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741826
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Robustness report: "Going to a better school: effects and behavioral responses", by Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola (2013)
Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556606
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Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2012
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099717
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625113
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012620009
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Ability grouping and student performance : experimental evidence from middle schools in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an average learning gain of 0.08 of a standard deviation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474559