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We estimate the effect of a teenage birth on the educational attainment of young mothers in Cape Town, South Africa. Longitudinal and retrospective data on youth from the CAPS dataset are used. We control for a number of early life and pre-fertility characteristics. We also re-weight our data...
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To model multivariate, possibly heavy-tailed data, we compare the multivariate normal model (N) with two versions of the multivariate Student model: the independent multivariate Student (IT) and the uncorrelated multivariate Student (UT). After recalling some facts about these distributions and...
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this study is to evaluate students' difficulties resulting from the lack of knowledge of regression analysis concepts among … economics students enrolled in the Master's cycle at the institute of economics at the university center of Tipaza (Algeria). In … order to analyze students' answers, a typical correction was prepared based on professors' answers to this questionnaire …
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estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …
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-performing students; (ii) while smaller classes are beneficial for low performers, larger classes are beneficial for high performers; (iii …
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