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Last and furious: relative position and school violence

Comi, Simona; Origo, Federica; Pagani, Laura; Tonello, Marco - 2020

school violence. We identify this effect by exploiting idiosyncratic differences in the distribution of earlier academic … achievement. We consider distinct types of school violence, namely, verbal, relational and physical violence. We find that rank … has a negative effect on both the probability and frequency of perpetrating school violence for all the specific types of …

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School reorganization reforms : the case of school networks in Colombia

Elacqua, Gregory; Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Santos, Humberto - 2019

introduced in Colombia in 2001 that merged several independent small schools into a single educational institution, with the same …

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Breaking glass ceilings in Colombia : strategies and outcomes in efforts to narrow the gender gap in educational leadership

Elacqua, Gregory; Perez Nunez, Graciela; Cubillos, Pedro - 2025

In Colombia, women represent 65% of the teacher workforce but only 34% of school principals, reflecting a significant …

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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020

Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the consequences of failing to gain admission to one's...

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From retributive to restorative : an alternative approach to justice in schools

Adukia, Anjali; Feigenberg, Benjamin; Momeni, Fatemeh - 2025

School districts historically approached conflict-resolution from the perspective that suspending disruptive students was necessary to protect their classmates, even if this caused harm to perceived offenders. Restorative practices (RP) - focused on reparation, accountability, and shared...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014

For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth model for the very long run in which the...

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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

Strulik, Holger - 2015

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two...

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Capturing the educational and economic impacts of school closures in Poland

Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Jakubowski, Maciej; Patrinos, … - 2022

The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with...

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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers

Brandt, Kasper - 2018

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...

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