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Africa's Skill Tragedy : Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …. After measurement-error correction, a one-standard-deviation increase in teacher subject knowledge raises student … teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning …

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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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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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How Does Reducing the Intensity of Tracking Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from German State Reforms

Piopiunik, Marc - 2021

To investigate the effects of reducing the intensity of tracking, this study exploits reforms across German states which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a university entrance qualification. Using a...

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How Does Reducing the Intensity of Tracking Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from German State Reforms

Piopiunik, Marc - 2021

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Speaking in Numbers : The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance Among Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2021

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Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness

Nagler, Markus; Piopiunik, Marc; West, Martin R. - 2015

How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...

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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

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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2014

We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are...

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Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ?lifelong learning?, fixed-term contracts, part-time versus full-time work, public/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the...

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