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Better Luck Next Time: Learning Through Retaking / Verónica Frisancho, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, Cemile Yavas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frisancho, Verónica.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19663.
- NBER working paper series no. w19663
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Better Luck Next Time
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- In this paper we provide some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey we estimate cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and unobserved characteristics. We find large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores, especially among less advantaged students.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2013.
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