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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly …
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. Using data for all primary schools in one federal state of Germany, we find support for this compositional effect …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection (amongst other things) resulting in an increase in the...
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estimate students' preferences over schools and vice versa that does not fully assume that students report their preferences …
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and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the …This article estimates the market value of public education by comparing standardized test scores of students in public … schools. This article uses Brazilian test score data, which are particularly good. The main results are not surprising. Pre …
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We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the collaboration intensity of the task as the key...
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Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …
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revealed. In a field experiment in secondary schools, students received information about their absolute rank in the last math …
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