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Neighbourhood turnover and teenage attainment

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014

's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … auxiliary findings based on survey data, suggest that neighbourhood turnover damages education through the disruption of local …

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Home broadband and human capital formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student …

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2020

This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and ﬁfth...

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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...

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Student work, educational achievement, and later employment : a dynamic approach

Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter - 2017

education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes …. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays of secondary education are … education enrolment. …

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The impact of dual apprenticeship : programs on early labour market outcomes : a dynamic approach

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This study examines the impact of enrolling into dual apprenticeship programs in secondary education on six early … education framework – the effects of two distinct types of dual programs that combine part-time school- or training centre …

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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

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