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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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This paper exploits discontinuities in the assigment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits...
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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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