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Should I stay or should I go? : the effect of London’s terrorist attack on the educational choices of Muslims
Astorga-Rojas, Diego - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 3/4, pp. 463-501
This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers' education plans and … continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the "Next Steps" Survey in England and use … negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462301
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Educational Attainment in India
Agrawal, Tushar - 2012
This paper provides the estimates of average years of schooling in India for individuals aged 15 and above. The estimates are based on the nationally representative household surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India. We use the four rounds of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174579
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School Attendance and Child Labor - A Model of Collective Behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2014
This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185409
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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612613
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School attendance and child labor : a model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2010
education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946150
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Strategic Grade Retention
Bach, Maximilian - 2020
potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844018
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313885
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314944
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317253
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Strategic grade retention
Bach, Maximilian - 2019
potentially has important implications for public spending on education and affected students. To this end, I build a model in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146345