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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

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Why is the timing of school tracking so heterogeneous?

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2005

Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...

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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019

We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the …

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Diploma no problem : can private schools be of lower quality than public schools?

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Rocco, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

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School choice and quality

Checchi, Daniele (contributor); Jappelli, Tullio (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Home versus school learning : a new approach to estimating the effect of class size on achievement

Lindahl, Mikael - 2001

I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school year and out of session during the summer. This seasonal feature of the schooling system makes it possible to control for unobservable pupil characteristics affecting both the...

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School accountability : can we reward schools and avoid pupil selection?

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik - 2013

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...

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Refugees and "native flight" from public to private schools

Tumen, Semih - 2019

Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0 … education for every 31.6 refugee children enrolled in public schools - weaker than the typical estimates in the literature. …

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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data

Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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Does additional spending help urban schools? : an evaluation using boundary discontinuities

Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012

; education ; resources …

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