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Heterogeneity in high math achievement across schools : evidence from the American Mathematics Competition

Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - 2012

achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two … Mathematics Competition ; mathematics education …

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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...

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Small group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades : results from a randomized field experiment

Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction for 3 to 4 hours per week, for two periods of 4-6 weeks per … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement combined with psychological examination records, we...

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Oil project selection by metrics

Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016

The recent fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing, and thereby given rise to a renewed focus on parameters for project selection which supplement net present value. While the financial crisis was creating capital constraints, the oil industry seemed to be paying great...

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