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and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …
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schools. Instituted in 2008, the “Broadband at School” federal program in Brazil aimed to bring broadband to all urban public … examine the effect of “Broadband at School” program on students' academic performance. Using the system generalized method …
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This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … undergraduate courses in Brazil may provide a new instrument of regional development. In this sense, if this process happens in less … favored municipalities, there will be a new element of attraction of students that will be qualified and may stay there …
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Middle school is an important period of development for students. Middle schools in China are either separate schools … after grade six or incorporated in the same school complex with the elementary school. Students who attend separate … elementary and middle schools change schools more often than other students, and this additional school change can affect …
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one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … sheds some light on this issue by examining whether students' outcomes are affected when their teachers work in more than … teachers, ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 standard deviations. Low income students are also more negatively affected when their …
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closed its doors to students from mid-March 2020 to June 2021. During this time, instruction transitioned from face …-to-face to virtual, with students having three options for virtual instruction. In addition to individual KPS student data, the … three basic questions, as well as examining students' race/ethnicity and poverty status, summer learning loss to determine …
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This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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