This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to …), a representative and comprehensive database on sick leave in the US. The two binary outcome variables measure (i) access … to paid sick leave and (ii) suppressed sick leave ("presenteeism"). Thirty-five percent of US full-time employees lack …

administrative data from the US and Germany and compare their performance in a simulation. Large bins cause McC to substantially …

how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …

-school completion for justice-involved youth. Effects on grades are negative or not significant, possibly due to the greater retention …

then has us jeopardize local comparability as GPA better delineates students of different ability. Given these two …

-year institutions. In terms of course performance, changes in completion rates, withdrawal rates, and grades primarily occurred in the …

-year institutions. In terms of course performance, changes in completion rates, withdrawal rates, and grades primarily occurred in the …

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the … correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades … and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement …

The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest … (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts … grades favourably. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well as being supported by the validity tests we …