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The effects of chess instruction on academic and non-cognitive outcomes : field experimental evidence from a developing country

Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Nicholas, Aaron - 2019

We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the effects on academic outcomes, and a number of non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience,...

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The perils of returning to school : new insights into the seasonality of youth suicides

Chandler, Vincent; Heger, Dörte; Wuckel, Christiane - 2019

Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect is constant across different types of holidays (fall,...

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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes

Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019

Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...

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The effect of compulsory schooling on skills : evidence from a reform in Germany

Hampf, Franziska - 2019

Based on high-quality skill data from PIAAC, this paper provides evidence on the effect of schooling on labor-market relevant cognitive skills. For identification, I exploit the staggered introduction of a compulsory ninth grade in basic track schools across German states, as well as a...

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Understanding the income gradient in college attendance in Mexico : the role of heterogeneity in expected returns

Kaufmann, Katja - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 3, pp. 583-630

Differences in college enrollment between poor and rich are striking in Latin America. Explanations such as differences in college preparedness and credit constraints have been advanced. An alternative explanation could be differences in information sets between poor and rich, for example, about...

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Foreign peer effects and STEM major choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin Y.; Williams, Kevin - 2017

period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …

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Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school

Leuven, Edwin; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2017

How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples' long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size …

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Do teaching practices impact socio-emotional skills?

Korbel, Vaclav; Paulus, Michal - 2017

Recent studies emphasize the importance of socio-emotional skills for the success in school as well as for later economic outcomes. However, little is known how practices used by teachers everyday in classrooms impact socio-emotional skills. We show that modern practices such as working in small...

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Changes in returns to education in India, 1983-1994 : by gender, age-cohort and location

Duraisamy, Palanigounder - 2000

recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …-94 using a large national level household survey data. The data show that the returns to education increases up to the … schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and …

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