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Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of … are far from insurmountable. -- school quality ; performance measures ; education incentives …
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high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity …. We show that their choice of start date - based on first-observed school exit and often triggered by school vacations … dates tied to a more systematic definition of school exit, we find that employer learning is equally evident for high school …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore...
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teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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This study uses the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data, the only cross-national data having measured educational achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate educational achievement decline of fourth graders across 21 European countries between 2016 and...
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …
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, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic … of each other. Throughout the early teenage years the neighbourhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a life … examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict …
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, structuring of school classes and educational achievement in secondary school. For educational attainment, there was an increase … in achievement at the end of elementary school and greater equality of achievement at the transition without an increase … in social inequality. The structuring of school classes showed a decoupling of cognitive and social segregation. And for …
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We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...
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