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equitable for students to enroll in schools that are a good fit for them. These universal enrollment systems offer a one …-stop shop for students to learn about different options, submit applications, and receive and accept offers. Using the … largest gains appear to be from streamlining applications and offers, with students receiving a single-best offer and schools …
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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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estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …
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The study examined the factors that affect students' academic achievement in Zimbabwe's rural Secondary Schools with … methodology and the population sample was drawn from teachers, Form 3 and Form 4 students and parents in the native area. The … as well as discipline and order are the major internal factors affecting students' academic achievement. The identified …
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This study focuses on how social contexts promote disparities in academic performance between Russian high schools. In particular, we investigate how a school's average Unified State Examination (USE) scores in Russian and mathematics relate to the social composition of its student body, its...
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results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students. This is due to …
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This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students.This is due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915711
Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic...
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