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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...
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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971645
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973291
receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational … path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one … more year of general education, which, according to the authors of the reform, should improve the student's position in the …
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-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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effect of the policy on educational attainment. With recent data on eight cohorts exposed to free education, we analyze the … likelihood of primary school completion. We find some weak evidence that the likelihood of those who completed primary education …
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