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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649748
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541111
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658035
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378381
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Weak markets, strong teachers : recession at career start and teacher effectiveness
Nagler, Markus; Piopiunik, Marc; West, Martin R. - 2015
How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300372
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State investment in higher education : effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2020
recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers … and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294613
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260836
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The economics of international differences in educational achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
growth. -- human capital ; cognitive skills ; international student achievement tests ; education production function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966504
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Are non-eligible students affected by special education?
Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius; Bonesrønning, Hans; … - 2013
inclusion - are affected by special education resources. Special education resources are per definition provided in a … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education …, and combine fixed effects with an IV-approach, to identify the causal effects of special education on the academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722417
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
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