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The Causal Effect of an Extra Year of Schooling on Skills and Knowledge in Latin America. Evidence from PISA
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Marchionni, Mariana; Vazquez, Emmanuel – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of an extra year of schooling on mathematics performance for seven Latin American countries based on PISA 2012. To that end we exploit exogenous variation in students' birthdates around the school entry cut-off date using both sharp and fuzzy Regression Discontinuity designs. We find strong effects of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Peer Effects and Scholastic Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Estimates Using the Age Sorting Criterion in the Composition of Classrooms
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de Arruda Raposo, Isabel Pessoa; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti; de Menezes, Tatiane Almeida – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This paper evaluates the influence of the classmates' age on individual academic achievement. The identification strategy explores a mechanism for the division of classes based on age homogeneity, with cutoff value determined by the Brazilian law of age at school entry. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates a local average treatment effect of…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries