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math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to …
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This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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combines a review of the emerging international literature with new evidence from German longitudinal time-use surveys. Based … and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … year later. In a value-added model, learning time increases with daily online class instruction, but not with other school …
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This paper investigates the impacts of teacher characteristics on student performance using a nationally representative and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having a more experienced or female homeroom teacher (HRT) with additional classroom management duties...
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collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …-achievers disproportionately replaced learning time with detrimental activities such as TV or computer games rather than with activities more …
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. Earlier school start times and lost instructional time of nearly three and a half hours a week appear to be the primary …
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. Educational losses may translate into significant national income losses over time. …
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provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower secondary schools of Southern Italy. We control for … group across grades and the composition of teachers in the school assigned to each group is substantially stable over time …. We contrast groups with and without additional instruction time in participating schools, to groups in non …
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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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