Does birthright citizenship boost immigrant children’s educational participation and success? We address this question relying on a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 to birthright citizenship. We isolate the impact of birthright citizenship by comparing children born shortly before and shortly after the cutoff in years of policy ch...

Using PIRLS 2001 and PISA 2003 data for Germany, this paper examines whether immigrants attending primary and secondary school are graded worse in math than comparable natives. Controlling for diff erences in math skills, class fi xed eff ects regressions and results of a matching approach suggest that immigrants have grade disadvantages in primary education. In Germany, track choice after prim...

In this paper, a variety of potentially explanatory indicators for child labor and school attendance in Zambia is scrutinized. By analyzing the results from a bivariate probit model, the arising doubt with regard to the income sensitivity of the child labor choice is confirmed. Among other factors, community effects influence the child labor and schooling choice. Based on the results, sensitiza...

Disadvantaged students perform differentially worse when randomly given a financially salient mathematics exam. For with socioeconomic indicators below the national median, 10 percentage point increase in share of monetary themed questions depresses exam performance by 0.026 standard deviations, about 6 percent their gap. Using question-level data, I confirm role financial salience comparing on...

Using two RCTs in middle schools Pakistan, we show that brief, expert-led, curriculum-based videos integrated into the classroom experience improved teaching effectiveness: student test scores math and science increased by 0.3 standard deviations, 60 percent more than control group, after 4 months of exposure. Students teachers their attendance, students were likely to pass high-stakes governme...

In response to recent concerns expressed by Indian industry about the ‘employability’ of school and university graduates, this article examines role pedagogy in developing life skills (or twenty-first-century skills) how these can be incorporated school/university curriculum. Recent curricular frameworks have within curriculum stressing importance inquiry collaborative work through all subjects...

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