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, especially among black youth. However, there are still large differences in access between black and white children. Black … students in higher education attend less prestigious courses than their white counterparts. Moreover, the performance of black … teens in exams by the end of high school is worse than that of white students, and recent trends suggest that these …
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structure using a unique feature of educational policy in South Korea—the random assignment of students into single-sex versus …
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A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is complicated by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a new...
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
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inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …
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productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …
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We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises ages and generates two kinds of returns in our framework: a labor-market return and a marriage-market return because...
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of the student body of the school, such as students' daily attendance, students in college preparatory classes, and high …
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graduation tests, (4) state defined minimums for the total number of courses students must take and pass to get a high school …
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students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …
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