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Where the boys aren't : Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education
Jacob, Brian A. - 2002
Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469750
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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
Engel, Mimi - 2011
Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461855
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Remedial Education and Student Achievement : A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
Jacob, Brian A. - 2002
have relied more on remedial programs such as summer school and grade retention to help low-achieving students meet minimum … achievement for third grade students and has little effect on math achievement for sixth grade students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469796
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The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago
Jacob, Brian A. - 2002
reading performance of elementary students. We find that marginal increases in-service training have no statistically or … not be sufficient to increase the achievement of elementary school children in high poverty schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469798