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Quantile regression estimates of the effect of student absences of academic achievement

Gershenson, Seth; McBean, Jessica Rae; Tran, Long - 2018

previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …

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Educational attainment: analysis by immigrant generation

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland

Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024

schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are …

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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What differences a day can make : quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains

Hayes, Michael S.; Gershenson, Seth - 2015

estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …

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Identifying and producing effective teachers

Gershenson, Seth - 2021

students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. However, students do not enjoy equal …

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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?

Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015

both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina … to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students …

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