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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …

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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

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Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?

Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...

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Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden's Voucher Reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406175

Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Jha, Nikhil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students' standardised test scores. However, budget allocation …

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Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Le, Trinh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...

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"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Le, Trinh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

into music training, we take into account detailed information on parents, which may determine both the decision to pursue …

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