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Who gained from the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales?
Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2016
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of Education. This was to open secondary school education to children of all social backgrounds on equal...
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Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
Hart, Robert A. - 2016
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of Education. This was to open secondary school education to children of all social backgrounds on equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995611
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The effect of a specialized versus a general upper-secondary school curriculum on students' performance and inequality : a difference-in-differences cross-country analysis
Leme, Afonso Câmara; Escardíbul, Josep Oriol; Nunes, … - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 39, pp. 4317-4331
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Class Composition Effects and School Welfare : Evidence From Portugal Using Panel Data
Firmino, João - 2018
Using student-level longitudinal data of 6th graders I estimate class composition effects impacting on individual academic achievement. The richness of the dataset allows to tackle endogeneity stemming from between and within-school non-random sorting of students and of teachers and other...
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High school choices by immigrant students in Italy: evidence from administrative data
Aktas, Koray; Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; … - 2021
We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...
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A Dynamic Framework of School Choice : Effects of Middle Schools on High School Choice
Hahm, Dong Woo; Park, Minseon - 2022
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between school choices made at different educational stages and how it affects racial segregation across schools. We use New York City public school choice data to ask: "How does the middle school that a student attends affect her high school...
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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
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Efeitos da inserção das disciplinas de filosofia e sociologia no ensino médio sobre o desempenho escolar
Niquito, Thais Waideman; Sachsida, Adolfo - 2018
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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
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