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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534003
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …
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This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two …
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The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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the Hungarian Life Course Survey (HLCS). The sample contains 9,050 pupils (aged 14-15) who finished primary education in … the academic year 2005/06, began secondary education in autumn 2006, and tertiary education in 2010 or 2011. …
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