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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246684
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418611
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423667
This paper examines the dynamics of the skill supply and its incidence on economic growth in the presence of education …, cross-country différences in long-term macroeconomic adjustment to education policies may be attributed, among other factors …, to the existence of a congestion effect in the education System. …
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The efficiency of any education and training system is often judged by how well this system prepares the youth for … knowledge and skills as part of their education and training. The paper mainly deals with the areas of education and economic … development, education and youth. In addition, it also highlights some of the problems and challenges of education in post …
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complusory education. However the earnings of those with educated parents declined - possibly because of a dilution of quality at … the top end of the education levels. The overall effect of the reform was however positive. …
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student effort) constant. The main parameters governing this difference are the extent to which inputs in the education … on student ability, the student's distaste for effort and the curvature of the education production with respect to …
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The existence of a rigid cutoff date which determines when children start primary school creates a large heterogeneity in students' level of maturity within the classroom. We use rich administrative data of the universe of public schools in Catalonia to show that: (1) relatively younger children...
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A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those … than resources. -- Comprehensive school ; economics of crime ; returns to education ; returns to human capital …
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