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Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries
Nieto, Sandra; Ramos, Raúl - 2014
outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition …
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
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Religious practice and student performance: evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
(1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other countries. Results are confirmed in a panel of PISA test scores (2003 …
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Wage returns to mid-career investments in job training through employer-supported course enrollment : evidence for Canada
Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel-Christian; … - 2015
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...
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Gender, motivation, and self-selection into teaching
Barigozzi, Francesca; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
This paper investigates the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in choosing a teaching career using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males...
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Counting rotten apples : student achievement and score manipulation in Italian elementary schools
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
We derive bounds for the average of math and language scores of elementary school students in Italy correcting for pervasive score manipulation. Information on the fraction of manipulated data is retrieved from a natural experiment that randomly assigns external monitors to schools. We show how...
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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective
Wang, Le - 2012
The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available only for the individuals whose spouse or parents are present in the same household. The IV...
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The skill development of children of immigrants
Hull, Marie; Norris, Jonathan - 2018
In this paper, we study the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills gaps for children of immigrants between kindergarten and 5th grade. We find some evidence that children of immigrants begin school with lower math scores than children of natives, but this gap disappears in later...
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The inequality-growth plateau
Henderson, Daniel J.; Qian, Junhui; Wang, Le - 2015
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals a plateau completely missed by commonly used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy...
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An analysis of the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage and school quality on the probability of school dropout
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2013
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …-level data in combination with its longitudinal continuation in the LSAY data, to measure the degree to which individual PISA …
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