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the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal … homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …
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from South Korea, this paper suggests that the effects of single-sex schooling and a student-teacher's gender matching are … heterogeneous across different student groups. The gender-matching school environments are most positive to non-cognitive outcomes …
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We exploit two unusual policy features of academic high schools in Seoul, South Korea - random assignment of pupils to high schools within districts and conversion of some existing single-sex schools to the coeducational (coed) type over time - to identify three distinct causal parameters: the...
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internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in … five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea … improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular …
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Ability tracking creates a homogenous learning environment within the classroom, by segregating high-performing and low-performing students into different groups. This paper exploits a unique policy change in South Korea combined with comprehensive micro dataset to measure the causal...
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We investigate the effects of attending a single-sex high school on future labor market outcomes through use of a randomized natural experiment. South Korean students are randomly assigned, by lottery, to single-sex or co-educational schools within their school districts. Using a large set of...
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To the extent that school assignments/choices are endogenous, it is hard to conduct good experimental research on single-sex schooling. Thus, there is little large-scale empirical evidence on the long-term effects of single-sex schools in many developed countries. I explore the causal effects of...
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