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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, Germán; Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
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/10010246126
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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
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
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Educational stock and economic growth : the case of Greece over the period 1981-2009
Pegkas, Panagiotis - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 56-71
This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 – 2009 by applying the …
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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014
creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406921
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Beyond the average : peer heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - 2014
of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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Family shocks and academic achievement
Hull, Marie - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296058
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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168737
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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
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