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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke - 2010
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...
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Total Instructional Time Exposure and Student Achievement : An Extreme Bounds Analysis Based on German State-Level Variation
Mandel, Philipp - 2011
Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...
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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
Schwerdt, Guido - 2011
We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle...
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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 of third grade be retained and provided with remedial services. We exploit a discontinuity in the probability of third grade retention under Florida's test-based promotion policy...
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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees : Does it Affect Retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2013
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...
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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are … differentiation in higher education can decrease student effort and skill of medium ability types …
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Stand and Deliver : Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2013
We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation, college attendance, and college choice. Charter attendance increases pass rates on the high-stakes exam required for high school graduation in Massachusetts, with especially...
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Leveraging Technology to Engage Parents at Scale : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bergman, Peter - 2017
While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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