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Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China … and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the … path by which students navigate their primary school years (i.e., which different types of schools did students attend) as …
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This article investigates the effects of large groups of first-year students on individual college performance. The … college. The results show that students in large cohorts of freshmen have a lower probability to complete their degree on …-time, partly because students take longer to attain their college degree and partly because more students are forced to de …
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The outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and subsequent lockdowns and school closures have caused varying degrees of academic disruptions for children. This paper exploits variation in the duration that cities were classified as medium- or high-risk areas to identify the effects of...
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We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...
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