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Breaking ties : regression discontinuity design meets market design
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Narita, Yusuke - 2019
schools, combined with lottery tie-breaking at unscreened schools. We show how to identify causal effects of school attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989205
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Determinants of financial literacy among German students : an empirical analysis
Riebe, Katharina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 4, pp. 39-53
Finanzkompetenzen haben für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eine hohe Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag führt eine empirische Evaluation der Determinanten der Finanzkompetenz von Studierenden an einer deutschen Hochschule durch. Ein weiteres Ziel ist auch die Identifizierung der geschlechtsspezifischen...
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Transfer College Quality and Student Performance
Dills, Angela K.; Hernández-Julián, Rey - 2007
We examine how students that transfer credit for an introductory-level course from schools of varying quality perform in a subsequent intermediate-level course, holding constant many student characteristics. We measure college quality by the percent of students admitted, the faculty-student...
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The Effects of Attendance on Academic Performance : Panel Data Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics
Stanca, Luca - 2013
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. We exploit a large panel data … with attendance, such as ability, effort and motivation. We find that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables … provide a viable solution to the omitted variable bias. Panel estimators indicate that attendance has a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068364
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The role of specific subjects in education production functions: Evidence from morning classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Cortes, Kalena E.; Bricker, Jesse; Rohlfs, Chris - 2010
classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom learning vary by course subject, and how much attendance in one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269925
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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?
Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...
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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476582
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662703
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552457
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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
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