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Comment on Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance : Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools
Hahn, Youjin; Wang, Liang Choon - 2013
We re-examine the findings in Park, Behrman, and Choi (2012) regarding the causal effects of single-sex schooling on South Korean high school seniors’ performance in the college entrance examination and college attendance. The results with an extra year of data indicate that single-sex schools...
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The effect of islamic secondary school attendance on academic achievement
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2014
Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than students attending non-madrasah schools. However,...
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Good schools or good students? : evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer...
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High school choices by immigrant students in Italy: evidence from administrative data
Aktas, Koray; Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; … - 2021
We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...
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The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2014
Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than students attending non-madrasah schools. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052552
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"I wish i knew ..." : misperceived ability, school track counseling services and performances in upper secondary education
Bernardi, Martino; Bratti, Massimiliano; De Simone, … - 2014
Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents) have all the relevant information they need to make...
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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2018
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate … secondary school. Positive effects are observed for pupils with a less favorable family background. Quantile regressions reveal …
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Why subsidize independent schools? : estimating the effect of a unique Canadian schooling model on educational attainment
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2021
Canada is recognized as one of the top 10 countries in secondary education according to PISA results. A particularly intriguing case in this country is the large system of highly subsidized independent schools in the province of Québec where students also perform extremely well in PISA testing....
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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Long term educational attainment of private high school students in Québec : estimates of treatment effects from longitudinal data
Lapierre, David; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2017 - Revised version
Very few studies analyze the long-term educational effects of private secondary school attendance while controlling for socioeconomic status. In Québec, the second most populous Canadian province, twenty percent of students at this level are enrolled in private schools subsidized by the...
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