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Evaluating the "threat" effects of grade repetition. Exploiting the 2001 reform by the French-speaking Community of Belgium
Vandenberghe, Vincent; Belot, Michèle - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
repeat grade 7, putting an end to the regime of “social promotion” that existed before. We use data from two waves of the …
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Revisiting Grade Retention: An Evaluation of Florida's Test-Based Promotion Policy
Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. - In: Education Finance and Policy 2 (2007) September, pp. 319-340
In 2002, Florida adopted a test-based promotion policy in the third grade in an attempt to end social promotion …
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Can information and counseling help students from poor rural areas go to high school? Evidence from China
Loyalka, Prashant; Liu, Chengfang; Song, Yingquan; Yi, … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 1012-1025
information on returns or career planning skills on student dropout, academic achievement and plans to go to high school. Contrary … counseling on dropout may also be due to the high and growing wages for unskilled labor (high opportunity costs) in China …
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Charter school authorizers and student achievement
Carlson, Deven; Lavery, Lesley; Witte, John F. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 2, pp. 254-267
In this paper we analyze the relationship between charter school authorizers and student achievement. We perform this analysis using a 10-year panel dataset from Minnesota, a state that permits four distinct types of authorizers—local school boards, postsecondary institutions, nonprofit...
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
differences over the past 60 years for several income measures. We also document concomitant changes in enrollment and provide a … preliminary analysis suggesting that enrollment has responded to the increase in educationwage premiums. We use NLSY data to … document the variation in enrollment patterns for those who attend college and to show how these differences are related to pre …
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions: The aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
associated with declining enrollment rates. The analyses to test the hypothesis are based on a longitudinal administrative panel …
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
associated with declining enrollment rates. The analyses to test the hypothesis are based on a longitudinal administrative panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014504778
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Von der Last und Lust des Promovierens – Akademische Titel in der Praxis?
Szyperski, Norbert (contributor)
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Private School Quality in Italy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele; Oppedisano, Veruska - In: Giornale degli Economisti 66 (2007) 3, pp. 375-400
Private school enrolment may lead to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market. If students differ in their ability not only to pay but to take advantage of educational opportunities (“talent” for short), private schools attract a worse pool of students when...
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Human Capital and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Middendorf, Torge - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 226 (2006) 6, pp. 670-686
Recent studies on international student performance renewed the interest in the contribution of human capital to economic growth. So far the exploration of large country comparisons delivered rather mixed results. Concentrating on OECD member countries, this paper uses panel data estimation...
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