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Denning, Jeffrey - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student’s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111057

Peer effects and educational achievement: evidence of causal effectsusing age at school entry as exogenous variation for Peer quality

Raposo, Isabel Pessoa de Arruda; Gonçalves, Michela … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 1, pp. 18-37

This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in which the instruments for peers' performance are the...

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School selectivity, peers, and mental health

Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Landaud, Fanny; Løken, … - 2021

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on students’ mental health. Using a regression...

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Secondary school enrolment and teenage childbearing : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2019

This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate … secondary school. Positive effects are observed for pupils with a less favorable family background. Quantile regressions reveal …

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Economic Competence in Early Secondary School : Evidence From a Large-Scale Assessment in Germany

Kaiser, Tim - 2020

We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among a large and representative sample of early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student...

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The effect of grade retention on secondary school performance : evidence from a natural experiment

Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; … - 2018

We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative legislation. In 2010, the rule that forced schools to retain up to a 5% of students was abolished. Exploiting variation in schools' retention rates in a...

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The Effect of Grade Retention on Secondary School Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ferreira, Maria - 2018

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Urban Density and Pupil Attainment

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2021

We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in … environments disadvantage pupils, but because the most disadvantaged pupils with low average attainments attend the most urbanised … schools. To control for this, we exploit changes in urban density faced by pupils during compulsory transition from Primary to …

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