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Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2012

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

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Number of children and their education in Philippine households: Evidence from an exogenous change in family size

Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2005

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What accounts for the US-Canada education-premium difference?

Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2009

This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the fraction of university graduates and a similar increase in...

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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte - 2011

This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...

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Conflict and its impact on educational accumulation and enrollment in Colombia: What we can learn from recent IDPs

Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2011

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and enrollment is of particular concern because of...

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More schooling, more children: Compulsory schooling reforms and fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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Mothers do matter: New evidence on the effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling using Swedish twin data

Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent studies based on much larger samples of twins from...

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Is the persistence of teacher effects in early grades larger for lower-performing students?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Sun, Min - 2011

We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high …-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data … consistently indicated that all students benefited similarly from teachers. Overall, systematic differential teacher effects were …

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