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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 involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …

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Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2013

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...

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School Shootings and Student Performance

Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting …

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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement : Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …

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Is Traditional Teaching Really All That Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2021

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student...

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

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

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 heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

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The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida

Schwerdt, Guido - 2013

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

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