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Essays in education and family economics

De Falco, Adriano - 2025

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Degrees of deception : how score manipulation mitigates temperature's impact on student performance

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Palma, Alessandro; Vuri, Daniela - 2025

Using Italian data on the universe of mandatory tests conducted in a low-stakes setting without air conditioning, we investigate the effect of temperature on student performance, with a focus on how manipulation distorts causal estimates of temperature effects on test scores. While high...

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Measuring gender disparity in the structure of educational attainment in Asia based on grouped data

Akita, Takahiro - 2025

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The effects of high school remediation on long-run educational attainment

Özek, Umut - 2025 - This version: May 23, 2025

This study examines the effects of remedial courses in high school on postsecondary outcomes using a regression discontinuity design and explores the mechanisms behind these effects. I find that being placed in the remedial schedule and taking an additional remedial course in high school reduces...

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Causal effects of education on marriage

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2025

Many nations have experienced both rising education levels and declining marriage rates. However, cross-sectional comparisons within countries often indicate that more highly educated individuals are more likely to be married. Economic theory suggests ambiguous causal effects of education on...

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Levelling the playing field? : SES differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2025

In many countries, subsidies towards higher education and financial aid to students from poorer backgrounds have reduced socio-economic status (SES) gaps in undergraduate study. The increasing importance of graduate studies that are typically more expensive may, however, provide a new avenue for...

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On grade option choice and grade performance expectation when instruction goes virtual : the role of peers at a distance

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Wang, Yudi - 2025

Campus closures due to COVID19 created uneven student-level exposures to the challenges of home-based virtual learning …. Using university administrative data, and exogenous class-level differences in pre-pandemic on-campus housing assignments …-course level using administrative records, we find that within-class peer support can offset learning challenges even in virtual …

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Does anti-discrimination legislation matter in low-income countries? : the impact of disability legislation on the educational attainment of children with disability

Odhiambo, Frank; Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2025

. Using individual-level data from ten African countries, we apply various difference-in-differences approaches to assess the …

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Location and educational signals

Maarseveen, Raoul van - 2025

Place shapes the educational attainment of children, yet the underlying reasons remain poorly understood. In this paper, I investigate the role of spatial differences in educational signals received by students. Using Dutch administrative data combined with high-stakes national exam scores, I...

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The gender wage gap across life : effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment

Bryson, Alex; Morris, Tim; Bann, David; Wilkinson, David - 2024

Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life- course for men...

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