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School tenure and student achievement
Fan, Wen - 2011
While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least...
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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?
Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022
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Are we spending too many years in school? : causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
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The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement : Evidence of Disruption?
Voldby Beuchert, Louise - 2016
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Stand and Deliver : Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2013
We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially...
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Family size and children's education: evidence from the one-child policy in China
Huang, Yue - 2017
Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker … provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental …
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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment
Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Autor, David H. - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …
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