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Are there Etchnic Inequality Traps in Education ? Empirical Evidence for Brazil and Chile

Cruces, Guillermo; Bérgolo, Marcelo; Conconi, Andriana; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2012

assess certain conditions which might imply its existence. The main results indicate that while average education and upward … Chile. These results reflect the need for targeted education policies for ethnic groups in two ways: compensation (or …

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...

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Am I missing something? The effects of absence from class on student performance

Arulampalam, Wiji; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 4, pp. 363-375

We analyse a rich dataset of Economics students at a UK university to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance, exploiting the random assignment of students and information on students’ class timetables to avoid selection problems. We use panel properties of the data to...

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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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Mixed oligopoly in education

Cremer, Helmuth; Maldonado, Dario - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013

Abstract: This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and … when the quality of education depends on peer group"" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and … e¤ectiveness of public schools as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector." …

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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

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Returns to education and urban-migrant wage differentials in China: IV quantile treatment effects

Messinis, George - In: China Economic Review 26 (2013) C, pp. 39-55

conditional and unconditional quantile treatment effects for education and for migrant status. Particular attention is paid to … education are significant, especially when we account for endogeneity; (2) long-term migrants seem disadvantaged, mainly due to … account for endogeneity in education. …

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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 3, pp. 7-57

Intergenerational mobility in education and income is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices …

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The Effect of Restorative Juvenile Justice on Future Educational Outcomes

Rud, I.; Van Klaveren, C.; Groot; W.; Brink, Maassen van den - Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research - 2014

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