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local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
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Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this … paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among … students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments … statistically and economically significant for students at the bottom of the ability distribution. We develop theoretical conditions …
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We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We …
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
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More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services … offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …
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formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England …-born students. For country-born individuals, ties depend on a broader set of factors, including socioeconomic status and school …
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We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...
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