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We use administrative data to measure sibling spillovers on academic performance before and after Tanzania's introduction of Free Secondary Education (FSE). Prior to FSE, students whose older siblings narrowly passed the secondary school entrance exam were less likely to go to secondary school...
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systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …
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The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity …
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Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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