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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …
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the level of special education provided. …
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The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic … remains a substantial gap between girls and boys participation in many states. States’ average education level and social …
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We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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analytical discussion of all determinants of the decision to terminate education and enter the labor market. Further, as we are …
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When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in … Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in …
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