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Age of Starting School, Academic Performance, and the Impact of Non-Compliance: An Experiment within an Experiment, Evidence from Australia

Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael; Niu, Anthony; Vella, Francis - 2021

This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for the years 2008-2016. Academic performance is measured by...

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Age of starting school, academic performance, and the impact of non-compliance: an experiment within an experiment, evidence from Australia

Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Niu, Anthony; Vella, … - 2021

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The educational burden of ADHD: Evidence from student achievement test scores

Dannemann, Bernhard C.; Gören, Erkan - 2018

This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the educational burden of the ADHD-related behavioral symptoms inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity on aggregate cognitive achievement outcomes. We use a novel compilation of the 2- and 7-repeat allele variants of the human DRD4 exon...

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The educational burden of ADHD : evidence from student achievement test scores

Dannemann, Bernhard C.; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This version: April 2018

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What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement … tests. IQ is relatively more important in predicting scores on achievement tests. Personality is generally more predictive …

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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

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Does the transition into daylight saving time affect students' performance?

Herber, Stefanie P.; Quis, Johanna Sophie; Heineck, Guido - 2015

We use international student assessment data on more than 22,000 students from six European countries and a regression discontinuity design to investigate whether the transition into daylight saving time (DST) affects elementary students' test performance in the week after the time change. We do...

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Does the transition into daylight saving time affect students’ performance?

Herber, Stefanie P.; Quis, Johanna Sophie; Heineck, Guido - 2015

We use international student assessment data on more than 22,000 students from six European countries and a regression discontinuity design to investigate whether the transition into daylight saving time (DST) affects elementary students’ test performance in the week after the time change. We...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition

Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013

establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills - personality traits, goals, motivations, and …

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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence

Link, Susanne - 2013

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

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