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explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on … inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined … knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education while the three educational indicators are: primary school enrolment …
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receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment in elementary schools, 1.377 pupils are randomly assigned to one of three conditions in a multiple-choice test: (i) gain frame (Control), (ii) loss frame (Loss) and (iii) gain...
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …
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the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
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