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Class setting and children's non-cognitive outcomes
McDool, Emily - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875440
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Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James J. - 2008
emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870356
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The effect of immigrant concentration in schools on native and immigrant children's reading and math skills
Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1503-1515
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491294
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 298-328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341695
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills (Families, children and human capital formation)
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 435-462
This article uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to estimate the relationship between different types of skills and performance of young adults. While we follow the literature and consider grades in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466892
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457898
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Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James J. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 46 (2008) 3, pp. 289-324
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760979
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269