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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories
Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …
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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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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,...
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Majority vote on educational standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
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A note on brain gain and brain drain : permanent migration and education policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
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The effects of school integration : evidence from a randomized desegregation program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …
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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020
Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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