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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017697
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086036
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014978
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047318
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Speaking in Numbers : The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance Among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315517
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - CESifo - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627567
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Weak Markets, Strong Teachers : Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Nagler, Markus - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018220
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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046581
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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation
Piopiunik, Marc - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924449