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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter (contributor); … - 2006

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...

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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course : evidence from a UK university

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...

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"Teaching to teach" literacy

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually … function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to …

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Do friendship networks improve female education?

Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asad; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2017

We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...

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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills

Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020

in regular school teaching by a randomized educational intervention involving a sample of 6-7 years old first graders. We …

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

O'Connor, Kelsey J.; Bartolini, Stefano - 2024

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35...

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Lifetime consequences of lost instructional time in the classroom : evidence from shortened school years

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2024

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost classroom instruction on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum....

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The impact of child labor and school quality on academic achievement in Brazil

Bezerra, Márcio Eduardo G.; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia; … - 2009

. -- Child labor ; school achievement ; Brazil …

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