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First Generation Elite : The Role of School Networks

Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2022

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...

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Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments

Arold, Benjamin W.; Hufe, Paul; Stöckli, Marc - 2022

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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Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Characterizing the Schooling Cycle

Sadaba, Barbara; Vujić, Sunčica; Maier, Sofia - 2022

This paper develops a novel and tractable empirical approach to estimate the cycle in schooling participation decisions, which we denominate the schooling cycle. The estimation procedure is based on unobserved components time series models that decompose higher education enrollment rates into a...

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The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by …

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E-Learning Engagement Gap During School Closures : Differences by Academic Performance

Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, Marta - 2022

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...

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The Fertility Effects of School Entry Decisions

Kamb, Rebecca; Tamm, Marcus - 2022

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....

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School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning During COVID-19 : When, Where, and for Whom

Kurmann, André; Lalé, Etienne - 2022

-21 school year. Public schools averaged less EIPL than private schools. Schools in more affluent localities and schools with a …

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Unawareness and Selective Disclosure : The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2017

of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website with home sales data for the state of …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to … medium-quality schools in the neighborhood and find that the release of information about high-quality schools increases …

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The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement : Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Lavado, Pablo - 2017

Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...

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