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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using …
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We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of … other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we …
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The German education system is organised in a federal system, i. e. each of the 16 Federal States is solely responsible for the supply and financing of the university places. Offering a suficient number of these places is important in achieving the aim of promoting academic education and...
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Starting in 2004/2005, the German state Baden-Wurttemberg reduced academic track duration from nine to eight years, leaving cumulative instruction time mostly unchanged. I use this change in schooling policy to identify the effect of schooling intensity on student well-being in life and school,...
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mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP students than for LEP students. The overall language mix of LEP students … has little if any discernable relationship with achievement. For LEP students, having more LEP peers speak their mother …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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