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Inequality of learning in industrialised countries
Micklewright, John (contributor);  … - 2006
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523160
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Armed conflict and schooling : evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Akresh, Richard (contributor); De Walque, Damien (contributor) - 2008
To examine the impact of Rwandaś 1994 genocide on childrenś schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age groupś baseline schooling and exploits variation across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719629
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How should peer-review panels behave?
Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
measures ought to be used in a REF. -- university evaluation ; RAE Research Assessment Exercise 2008 ; citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672292
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950759
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Gendered language in academic evaluations : evidence from the Italian university system
Casamonti, Matilde; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2024
,000 evaluation reports for applicants seeking professorial promotion across all academic fields in Italy. In this context, candidates … observe that the language used in evaluation reports varies significantly with applicants' productivity and professional ties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050817
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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336861
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Evaluation of active labour market policy : methodological concepts and empirical estimates
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000
explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339682
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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757302
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Effects of changes in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt : regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - 2015
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470896
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187