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mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …
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In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …
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public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in … alternatively, in each quarter). The idea behind the instruments is that compulsory school enrolment laws generate variation in the … child's age at school entry, which, in turn, make the date of birth within the year an important determinant of educational …
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...
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The combination of changing sleep patterns in adolescence and early school start times leaves secondary school … classrooms filled with sleep-deprived students. Evidence is growing that having adolescents start school later in the morning … schedules and decreased time after school for jobs, sports, or other activities as reasons to retain the status quo. While …
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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
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motivation on learning achievements, (3) to know the influence of the school environment on learning achievements. The population … in the study was grade X and XI students in high school. To answer the hypothesis in this study using multiple regression … learning achievement; and (4) There are influences of self efficacy influence, learning motivation, and school environment to …
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school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …
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