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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322018
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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms
Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213782
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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223667
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Religious Practice and Student Performance : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
–2018) allowing within country-wave comparisons of Muslim to non-Muslim students across Europe. We provide evidence consistent with … social capital and social identity via increased religious participation and shared experiences among students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323967
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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276628
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The impact of alternative grade configurations on student outcomes through middle and high school
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2011
school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in nonurban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277381