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Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2011

addresses the issue of essential heterogeneity. After first selecting a sample of children from the ECLS-K data set with quasi …

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The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking

Canaan, Serena - 2019

Grouping students by ability is a controversial issue, and its impacts are likely to depend on the type of tracking students are exposed to. This paper studies a reform that moved French schools from a rigorous tracking system, which assigned students to tracks with significantly different...

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A distributional analysis of upper secondary school performance

Cullinan, John; Denny, Kevin; Flannery, Darragh - 2018

We examine the relationship between the distribution of upper secondary school performance and a range of individual and school level characteristics using unconditional quantile regression methods and data from Ireland. We find that determinants such as social class, maternal unemployment,...

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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as 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...

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Self-Selection in School Choice

Chen, Li - 2018

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences before knowing their priorities at schools. A student self-selects if she decides not to apply to some schools despite being desirable. We give a theoretical explanation for this...

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Effects of Age at School Entry (ASE) on the Development of Non-Cognitive Skills : Evidence from Psychometric Data

Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011

psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with … dimensions: These children are more persistent and less often hyperactive. The findings are robust if we control for the … comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany’s segregated secondary-school tracks …

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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Eriksen, Tine Louise - 2012

Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully … suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of …

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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023

share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary

Hámori, Szilvia - 2011

eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children … impact on low-status children is supported by the robustness checks. The observed patterns are most probably explained by the … better performance of kindergartens, as opposed to schools, in developing the skills of low-status children …

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