Sentences with phrase «differences in education attainment»

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Finally, our analysis reveals that 44 % of the height premium in earnings is explained by differences in educational attainment whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education.

First, we know from earlier studies that student attainment levels - high school graduation or enrollment in post-secondary education - may be higher among voucher users even when test score differences between them and their public school counterparts are nonexistent.

I implement a dose response difference - in - differences estimation strategy, which uses the changes in special education brought about by the PBMAS to estimate the effect of special education status on student performance on state standardized exams, high school graduation rates, post-secondary attainment and quality at public universities in Texas, and earnings in the Texas labor market.

We plan to: (a) identify high risk adolescents based on elevated scores on a screening measure of depressive symptoms that is delivered in primary care; (b) recruit 400 (200 per site) of these at - risk adolescents to be randomized into either the CATCH - IT or the Educational group; and (c) assess outcomes at 2, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months post intake on measures of depressive symptoms, depressive diagnoses, other mental disorders, and on measures of role impairment in education, quality of life, attainment of educational milestones, and family functioning; and to examine predictors of intervention response, and potential ethnic and cultural differences in intervention response.