What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains
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- Hayes, Michael S. & Gershenson, Seth, 2016. "What differences a day can make: Quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 48-51.
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quantile regression; school year length; education production function; ECLS-K;All these keywords.
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- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
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