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and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …
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one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than … teachers, ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 standard deviations. Low income students are also more negatively affected when their …
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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...
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Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor market. In this paper, I test whether refugee influx can also increase the intensity of human capital...
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