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Performance of young adults: The importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2013
time. Although conventional OLS estimates suggest negative effects of retention on achievement, regression discontinuity … estimates indicate large positive effects on achievement and a reduced probability of retention in subsequent years. The … achievement gains from test-based retention fade out over time, however, and are statistically insignificant after six years. …
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The Value of NATO Option for a New Member
Kanniainen, Vesa; Ringbom, Staffan - 2015
The paper introduces a welfarist approach to the national safety of a nation with membership in a defense alliance as an option. The members are risk averse but heterogeneous in their safety classification. There are two public goods as insurance devices, the domestic military budget and the...
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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...
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Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
Bietenbeck, Jan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2015
Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student...
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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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The Efficiency of Educational Production: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries with other OECD Countries
Bogetoft, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranaes, Torben - 2015
Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...
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Time Preferences, Study Effort, and Academic Performance
Non, Arjan; Tempelaar, Dirk - 2015
We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388209
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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
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