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Good or bad? Short- versus long-term effects of multigrading on child achievement
Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard, Patrick; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2022
This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students' short- versus long-term academic achievement in Italy. We cope with the endogeneity of multigrading (and class size) through an instrumental variable identification strategy based...
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461378
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056
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Does domestic violence jeopardize the learning environment of peers within the school? : peer effects of exposure to domestic violence in urban Peru
Gutierrez, Italo A.; Molina, Oswaldo - 2020
This study builds on the findings of Carrell and Hoekstra (2010, 2018) by exploring the peer effects of domestic violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199151
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Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Achievement in Zimbabwe's Rural Secondary Schools : A Case Study of Marimasimbe Secondary School in Jiri Community
Nyoni, Munyaradzi - 2017
The study examined the factors that affect students' academic achievement in Zimbabwe's rural Secondary Schools with Marimasimbe Secondary School (Gokwe South – Midlands Province) taken as a case study. The research adopted a case study methodology and the population sample was drawn from...
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on … experience one year after leaving education. The second part conditioned the eligibility for this unemployment benefit for youth …
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285842
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288066
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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
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