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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...
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Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have already enrolled in college. To do so, we exploit a unique non …
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conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …
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We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …
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student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …
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students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …
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Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …
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students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …
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