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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...
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Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure … to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using … register data on ten cohorts of high school students and exploiting within school, between cohort variation, we identify the …
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Genetic endowments are fixed at conception and matter for the educational attainment of individuals. Do investments in schooling environments mitigate or magnify the outcomes of this genetic lottery? Using data from a representative sample of US adolescents, we analyze the interdependent...
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during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the SES gaps are partly due …
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decompose higher education enrollment rates into a slow-moving stochastic trend and a stationary cyclical factor. By doing so … the business cycle in a time-varying fashion. Using data for 16 24-year-olds attending full-time post-secondary education …
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program modestly increased primary school students' non-cognitive skills in the short-term; these impacts on non …
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We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school …-learning usage gap between academically lower and higher-performing regions.Exploiting the regional variation in school closure …
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School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …
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We match cell phone data to administrative school records and combine it with information on school learning modes to …-21 school year. Public schools averaged less EIPL than private schools. Schools in more affluent localities and schools with a … larger share of non-white students provided lower EIPL. Higher school spending and federal emergency funding is associated …
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The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference … findings indicate that many buyers are unaware of the relevance of school quality information and that real estate agents …
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