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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
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determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
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time hardly any of these factors can be affected by policy in the short run. -- education production function ; student …
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Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity …
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Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
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may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models …
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We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small … on loans increases by about 30 percent for both treatments. The findings suggest that teaching methods can play an … important role in affecting how financial education programs impact financial behavior and outcomes. …
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for policy-makers seeking to use additional teaching resources to target a heterogeneous student population efficiently. …
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an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …
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