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. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student's mobility … rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of the students who change schools go to a school of the same or worse … quality. Students with greater probabilities of changing to better performance (higher quality) schools are those pertaining …
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students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …
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This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending...
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attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in … schools. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm that created exogenous …
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This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...
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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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The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
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of the student body of the school, such as students' daily attendance, students in college preparatory classes, and high …
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