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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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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes
Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022
Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083041
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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew C.; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861393
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322018
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...
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Comprehensive National Accounting for Carbon Emissions
Asheim, Geir B.; Yamaguchi, Rintaro - 2023
We consider the question of how to integrate carbon emissions in comprehensive national accounts for the purpose of indicating whether countries’ development is sustainable. We derive an expression for national saving which includes not only the national effect of current global emissions, but...
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Co2 Emissions and GDP : Evidence from China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying fractional integration and cointegration methods. The univariate results indicate that the two series are highly persistent, their orders of integration being around 2, whilst the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860770
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Air Pollution and Internal Migration : Evidence from Iranian Household Survey
Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of air pollution (measured by satellite data of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)) on net outmigration. Using data from the 2011 and 2016 National Population and Housing Censuses for 31 provinces of Iran and applying a panel fixed effects estimation...
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