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Natural resources, demand for skills, and schooling choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …

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Unionization and productivity : evidence from charter schools

Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - 2014

In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...

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Does high school homework increase academic achievement?

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014

Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...

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New evidence on classroom computers and pupil learning

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001

The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...

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Parental background, primary to secondary school transitions, and wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children's education translates into earnings …

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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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Charter schools and the segregation of students by income

Dalane, Kari; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021

The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools …

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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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