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progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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exogenously shifted participants’ beliefs about refugees’ education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees’ education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …
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Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
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dropping out of upper-secondary education. Further, for students who finish education we show that one month before termination …-making about human capital acquisition and labor market transition with important implications for education and labor market …
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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. …
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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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