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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
all due to differences in what students bring with them to school - socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the … like? Or do school systems make a difference? This essay argues that differences in features of countries' school systems … factors of the school system, as well as factors beyond the school system, account for cross-country achievement differences …
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Integrating minorities in the classroom : the role of students, parents, and teachers
Gendre, Alexandra de; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salamanca, … - 2024
We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529185
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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304326
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Effects of high-achieving peers : findings from a national high school assignment system
Alkan, Ahmet; Sarpça, Sinan - 2023
Recent studies of US elite exam schools have yielded the startling conclusion that such schools improve neither educational achievement nor longer-term educational outcomes. Is the same true for exam schools elsewhere? The system in Turkey is ideal for investigating this question. There,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435264
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Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India : a pupil fixed effects approach
Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (contributor);  … - 2008
evidence this could be due to the unobservables not controlled for by this procedure. A school fixed effects equation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771836
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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850153
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Do more effective teachers earn more outside of the classroom?
Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - 2010
2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949076
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003982015
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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
teacher sorting. Furthermore, teacher knowledge and school resources appear to be complements in student learning. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305375
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Early retirement incentives and student achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 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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