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Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
Denzler, Stefan; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
university. The results also show that distance does not influence study choices among students from the highest socioeconomic …
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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen: Zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland
Ritzen, Jo; Hinte, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour
Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high … controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving students' aspirations can be made more realistic through a series of … students and their high achieving classmates. …
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Student Scores in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines critically the presumption that, other things equal, private schooling offers higher quality education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro-level data in combination with its longitudinal...
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented … students. To assess the empirical relevance of this mechanism, we exploit cross-country variation in the PISA 2009 survey of …
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Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279324
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Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School
Cornwell, Christopher; Mustard, David B.; Van Parys, Jessica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test scores and (subjective) teacher assessments. Using data from the 1998-99 ECLS-K cohort, we show that the grades awarded by teachers are not aligned with test scores, with the...
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Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-generation immigrant students in an environment with stagnant Swiss PISA results was due to changes in the individual background … characteristics of the new immigrants (direct effect) and improved school composition (lower shares of students who did not speak the …
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