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The Association of Opening K-12 Schools and Colleges with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States : County-Level Panel Data Analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …
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Teacher Subject Knowledge, Didactic Skills, and Student Learning in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...
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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
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Class Size Effects in Higher Education : Differences Across Stem and Non-Stem Fields
Kara, Elif - 2020
In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields. This study estimates the effect of class size on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840212
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
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The Effect of Ability Matching and Differentiated Instruction in Financial Literacy Education - Evidence from Two Randomised Control Trials
Iterbeke, Kaat - 2020
The present paper examines the impact of ability matching and differentiated instruction on the learning outcomes of eighth and ninth grade students in a financial education programme. In particular, the effect of within-class ability matching is investigated by forming pairs of students either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844431
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Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Education Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race- Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2019
This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black...
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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