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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data
Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student … roughly 25 percent accruing to institutional variation. Student performance is higher with external exams and budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449993
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Why are single-sex schools successful?
Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Kwak, Do Won - 2017
We exploit two unusual policy features of academic high schools in Seoul, South Korea - random assignment of pupils to high schools within districts and conversion of some existing single-sex schools to the coeducational (coed) type over time - to identify three distinct causal parameters: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669028
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How does reducing the intensity of tracking affect student achievement? : evidence from German state reforms
Piopiunik, Marc - 2021
significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599122
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, and in particular their institutional structures, account for a substantial part of the cross-country variation in student … achievement. It first documents the size and cross-test consistency of international differences in student achievement. Next, it …, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489307
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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924505
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The impact of all-day schools on student achievement : evidence from extending school days in German primary schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2020
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students with municipality-level information on all-day school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299552
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486141
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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?
Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
ability based on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354080
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The effects of school integration : evidence from a randomized desegregation program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547710
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
production ; international student achievement tests ; panel estimation …Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378381