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the rest) secondary schools. Opponents of tracking contend that the lower-track schools in these systems will inevitably …-track schools. Second, using new data, I show that for both men and women, the additional schooling induced by the reform had close … to zero impact on a range of labor market outcomes including earnings. Third, I show that lower-track schools featured …
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classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family … the estimate is much reduced within schools. This could be explained either by selection into schools or by measurement …
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There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest for policy. In this paper we attempt to overcome...
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This paper investigates whether education weakens the relationship between early-life disadvantages and later-life SES. We use three proxies for advantage that we show are independently associated with SES in middle-age. Besides early, favorable family and neighborhood conditions, we argue that...
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We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in...
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with … schools and private schools. Almost half of the difference between the management scores of autonomous government schools and …
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We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...
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In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools changed their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective … college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under …
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The extent to which K-12 schools should remain open is at the forefront of discussions on long-term pandemic management …
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suggest that the financial benefits to children in single-parent families of improved enforcement may be substantially or …
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