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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
cognitive skills are significantly related to differences in women's access to high-skilled occupations outside teaching and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005432
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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920118
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Is Traditional Teaching Really All That Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2021
determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316379
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Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Veugelers, Reinhilde - CESifo - 2007
This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094228
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2015
may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206315
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Domestic Abuse : Instrumental Violence and Economic Incentives
Anderberg, Dan - 2011
A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117362
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Unemployment and Gang Crime : Could Prosperity Backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773601
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779694
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Violent Groups and Police Tactics : Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783319
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Male Education and Domestic Violence in Turkey : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ozer, Mustafa - 2017
We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour against women. We find that husband`s education lowers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951834