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This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...
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Purpose - While many business schools use large classes for the sake of efficiency, faculty and students tend to … results indicate that students perceive lower levels of teacher interaction and satisfaction in larger classes. Originality …
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This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, using a sample of 3,600 profile evaluations. In line with previous studies from the field of evolutionary psychology, our results...
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High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …
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Gender differences in school performance, raises the question of why one gender under-performs. Discrimination is one potential reason, and here I exploit a systemic structure in Norwegian high schools that allows me to identify the level of gender discrimination in grade setting. The results...
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