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Hull, Marie C. - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

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Information heterogeneity and intended college enrollment

Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2014

Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the United States have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a potential explanation for these...

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Evolução do acesso de jovens à educação superior no Brasil

Corbucci, Paulo Roberto - 2014

This study aims to analyze the evolution of access to higher education in the cohort 18-24 years, which is considered the most adequate for this level of education. Initially, we question the use of this age group as a reference to measure the degree of access to this level of education in...

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Perspectivas da complexidade para a educação no Brasil

Sakowsk, Patrícia Alessandra Moritai; Tóvolli, Marina … - 2015

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PRONATEC: Múltiplos arranjos e ações para ampliar o acesso à educação profissional

Cassiolato, Maria Martha M. C.; Garcia, Ronaldo Coutinho - 2014

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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...

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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education

Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Can - 2015

Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...

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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401695

Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...

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Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015

Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs – as a potential explanation for these patterns....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401724