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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519178
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Children's patience and schooltrack choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584079
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591184
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301778
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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468102
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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304326
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COVID-19 and educational inequality: how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020
-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305957
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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021
collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332257
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327826