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Frequency of examinations and student achievement in a randomized experiment

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1416-1429

We carry out a randomized experiment involving undergraduate students enrolled at an Italian University attending two introductory economics classes to evaluate the impact on achievement of examination frequency and interim feedback provision. Students in the treated group were allowed to...

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Expenditures and postsecondary graduation: An investigation using individual-level data from the state of Ohio

Webber, Douglas A. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 615-618

Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories...

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Early to rise? The effect of daily start times on academic performance

Edwards, Finley - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 970-983

Local school districts often stagger daily start times for their schools in order to reduce busing costs. This paper uses data on all middle school students in Wake County, NC from 1999 to 2006 to identify the causal effect of daily start times on academic performance. Using variation in start...

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Understanding the role of time-varying unobserved ability heterogeneity in education production

Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven F. - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 55-75

Unobserved ability heterogeneity has long been postulated to play a key role in human capital development. Traditional strategies to estimate education production functions do not allow for varying role or development of unobserved ability as a child ages. Such restrictions are highly...

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Explaining urban–rural differences in educational achievement in Thailand: Evidence from PISA literacy data

Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 213-225

Using the Thai PISA 2009 literacy test, this paper offers two contributions to the literature on the achievement gap …

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Peer effects and measurement error: The impact of sampling variation in school survey data (evidence from PISA)

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Silva, Pedro N. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1136-1142

Student Assessment (PISA) linked to administrative microdata recording information for each PISA sample member's entire year … just the PISA sample. We also use a Monte Carlo experiment to show how the extent of the attenuation bias rises as peer … peers of the size implied by the PISA survey design. …

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The effects of early tracking on student performance: Evidence from a school reform in Bavaria

Piopiunik, Marc - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 12-33

-type-specific shocks, I estimate a triple-differences model using three PISA waves. The results indicate that the reform reduced the …

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