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Time preferences, study effort, and academic performance
Non, Jan Adrianus; Tempelaar, Dirk T. - 2015
We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...
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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018
dropping out of upper-secondary education. Further, for students who finish education we show that one month before termination … about human capital acquisition and labor market transition with important implications for education and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789211
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535092
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A thousand cuts: cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement
Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022
We study how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel. We find increased levels and duration of exposure to lead negatively affect academic...
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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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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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Education, political discontent, and emigration intentions : evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Kunt, Pinar; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019 - Revised: 10 June 2019
effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029159
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Do children benefit from internet access? : experimental evidence from Peru
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received...
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