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(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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Education and Criminal Behavior : Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School

Åslund, Olof - 2015

We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical content. The reform directly concerns age groups where criminal activity is high and students who are...

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The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden

Fischer, Martin - 2017

This paper evaluates the impact on earnings, pensions, and other labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 to 7 years and the annual term length from 34.5/36.5...

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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes : Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform

Bohlmark, Anders - 2012

compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where … than a marginal phenomenon in Sweden. We do not find positive effects on school expenditures. Hence, the educational …

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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction of private schools. We estimate the effects of school choice and competition, using precise...

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Secondary School Enrolment and Teenage Childbearing : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019

This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...

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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

Jaeger, David A. - 2016

We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and Levine, American Economic Review 2015). We find Kearney and Levine's identification strategy to be...

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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of Their Children : Evidence for Europe

Navarro, Maria - 2012

the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

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Delaying the Bell : The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana I. - 2010

likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …

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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany : Patterns and Developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …

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