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Improving educational pathways to social mobility: Evidence from Norway's "Reform 94"
Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack - 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general...
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High school dropout for marginal students: Evidence from randomized exam form
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2019
We exploit the assignment of exam form in a high-stakes Norwegian high school exam to estimate the impact of exam form on exam results, later school performance, graduation and longer run outcomes. Results indicate that written exams significantly reduce exam grades and reduce the probability of...
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Homework assignment and student achievement in OECD countries
Falch, Torberg; Rønning, Marte - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of assigning homework on student achievement using data from 16 OECD countries that participated in TIMSS 2007. The model exploits withinstudent variation in homework across subjects in a sample of primary school students who have the same teacher in two related...
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Didactic methods and small-group instruction for low-performing adolescents in mathematics: Results from a randomized controlled trial
Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Gunnes, Trude; Lindenskov, Lena; … - 2021
Can high-dosage tutoring help low-performing adolescents? We implement a randomized experiment to test a twofold intervention: A teacher training program customized for instructing 8th graders who perform poorly in mathematics and two 4-6 week periods of targeted math instruction for...
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The effects of delayed tracking: Evidence from German states
Lange, Simon; von Werder, Marten - 2014
Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different secondary school types at the age of ten in most German states. In this paper we estimate the effects on educational outcomes of a reform that delayed tracking by two years. While...
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Beyond LATE with a discrete instrument. Heterogeneity in the quantity-quality interaction of children
Brinch, Christian N.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2012
The interpretation of instrumental variables (IV) estimates as local average treatment effects (LATE) of instrument-induced shifts in treatment raises concerns about their external validity and policy relevance. We examine how to move beyond LATE in situations where the instrument is discrete,...
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Labor Market Institutions and Wage Inequality in the OECD countries
Sparrman, Victoria; Rossvoll, Ellen Marie - 2015
In this paper we attempt to investigate the effect on income inequality of some recent trends in the labour market … that less strict regulations of temporary positions and higher immigration increase income inequality. The effects of other … labour market institutions, such as tax and benefit replacement ratio, on wage inequality are mainly in line with previous …
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Labour market institutions, shocks and the employment rate
Haraldsen, Kristine Wika; Nymoen, Ragnar; Sparrman, Victoria - 2019
The average employment rate for the OECD countries was close to 63 percent in the period 2000- 2015 but there is considerable variation within and between countries. We find that a dynamic model for employment, derived from a multiple equation macro model with institutional and population...
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The impact of trade on wage inequality in developing countries: Technology vs. comparative advantage
Scholl, Nathalie - 2015
Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure 'trade'- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …
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Pro-Poor Growth Using Non-Income Indicators: An Empirical Illustration for Colombia
Cardozo, Adriana; Grosse, Melanie - 2009
In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative...
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