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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 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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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404529
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019
We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to extend knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105595
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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2020
This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200313
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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Why does height matter for educational Attainment? : evidence from German pre-teen children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - 2010
respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944687
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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation
Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011
time hardly any of these factors can be affected by policy in the short run. -- education production function ; student …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301092
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012 - This version: February 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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The impact of alternative grade configurations on student outcomes through middle and high school
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240871