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and state-dependent private schools in Catalonia (Spain) are more reluctant to interact with single parents than with … fictitious families (heterosexual couple, single mother, and single father) and send e-mails to schools in which the family … structure is made explicit. Our results indicate that schools are more prone to interact with single parents than with …
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micro-regions, within towns and cities, and and within schools (between classes). The novelty of the analysis is in its …
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of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for …
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Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a simple parametric method based on a simultaneous...
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This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...
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institutional changes in schooling systems. The introduction of standardized student tests and of incentives for schools and …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by …
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-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …
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This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...
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I develop a model of competition between charter schools and traditional public schools and estimate the model using … administrative data from North Carolina. I use the model to quantify how existing charter schools have affected test scores for both … lifted. I find that i) the mean effect of charter schools on attendant students (direct effect ) is 25% of a standard …
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-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …
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