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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …) the use of such treatment improved these patients' survival. -- education ; health ; inequality …
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Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, minority graduation rates increased by 4.35...
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examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion … rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality by 28 … percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also …
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-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter participation, trust, and participation in welfare. We find distinct …
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We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to … 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 … to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for those without; from 2019 to 2021, mortality rose for both groups …
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We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher math scores than in lower stakes grades. We identify a high stakes grade with the final grade of primary or secondary school, because good performance in that grade can affect...
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In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...
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Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
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