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Schools, ability, and the socioeconomic gradient in education choices

Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne - 2011

This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...

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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes : evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...

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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...

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Pension-induced rigidities in the labor market for school leaders

Koedel, Cory; Grissom, Jason A.; Ni, Shawn X.; … - 2011

Educators in public schools in the United States are typically enrolled in defined-benefit pension plans, which penalize across-plan mobility. We use administrative data from Missouri to examine how the mobility penalties affect the labor market for school leaders. We show that pension borders...

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Stratified or comprehensive? : the economic efficiency of school design

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 2001

We study the efficiency of secondary school design by focusing on the degree of differentiation between vocational and general education. Using a simple model of endogenous job composition, we analyze the interaction between relative demand and relative supply of skills and characterize...

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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment

Bergman, Peter - 2015

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … information treatment reduces this bias while increasing parental monitoring. More information allows parents to induce more …

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Are sociocultural factors important for studying a science university major?

Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke; Osterfeld, Marius - 2015

combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as …

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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...

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Does the market value value-added? : evidence from housing prices after a public release of school and teacher value-added

Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2013

analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock … property values respond to both types of information. Using a difference-indifferences methodology surrounding the release, we …

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The impact of school lunches on primary school enrollment : evidence from India's midday meal scheme

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Simroth, Dora - 2011

At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches - known locally as "midday meals" - in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm...

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