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computer use for education and communication at home show a positive conditional relationship with student achievement. The …
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We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle...
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-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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inclusion - are affected by special education resources. Special education resources are per definition provided in a … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education …, and combine fixed effects with an IV-approach, to identify the causal effects of special education on the academic …
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This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in … Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in …
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Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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This paper examines the relationship between teacher unionization, student achievement and teachers’ pay using a cross-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within-pupil variation in achievement and find that union...
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schools lead to better student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading and to lower total education spending, even …
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increases during the course of secondary education, and regular standardised examination exerts additional positive effects …
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