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Building human or criminal capital? : school peer effects on future offending

Larsen, Britt Østergaard; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2017

important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …

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Improving learning outcomes through information provision : evidence from Indian villages

Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2017

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where parents have incomplete information about their child's cognitive skills and there exist competing public and private providers of education. Contiguous village councils in the...

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Minimum age requirements and the impact of school choice

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2018

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, and the difference across municipalities in the...

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Report cards : parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti

Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we...

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Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2022

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of the size of the school choice set at the time of starting primary school. With that purpose, we exploit multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, which not only define when a student can start elementary school, but also the...

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Intra-Household Gender Disparity in School Choice : Evidence from Private Schooling in India

Sahoo, Soham - 2016

This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural households from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India, this paper estimates a household fixed effects model and finds...

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