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The male–female gap in post-baccalaureate school quality
Stevenson, Adam - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 153-165
growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences in …
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Educational evaluation schemes and gender gaps in student achievement
Falch, Torberg; Naper, Linn Renée - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 12-25
This paper investigates whether gender gaps in student achievement are related to evaluation schemes. We exploit … assessed by their teacher. This gender grading gap in favor of the girls is found in both languages and mathematics. We find no … evidence that the gender grading gap is related to teacher characteristics, which indicates that the teacher …
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Intended college enrollment and educational inequality: Do students lack information?
Peter, Frauke H.; Zambre, Vaishali - In: Economics of Education Review 60 (2017), pp. 125-141
Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in...
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015), pp. 56-82
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 161-175
We exploit presumably exogenous variation in the availability of college-educated workers at the province level produced by a reform that increased the supply of higher education to estimate human capital production externalities for Italian manufacturing firms. We show that when the potential...
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Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad A. - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 89-104
I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find...
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Risks and returns to educational fields – A financial asset approach to vocational and academic education
Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 109-129
Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...
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The differential impact of compulsory schooling laws on school quality in the United States segregated South
Sansani, Shahar - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 64-75
In this paper, I estimate the differential effects of compulsory schooling laws on school quality between black and white schools in the United States segregated South. I employ state-level data on length of school terms and pupil–teacher ratios to examine these responses. Other literature has...
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The effect of Teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 113-125
effects are fairly uniform. We find a similar distributional effect of TFA within student gender, although the FEQR estimates …
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Skills, productivity and the evaluation of teacher performance
Harris, Douglas N.; Sass, Tim R. - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 183-204
We examine the relationships between observational ratings of teacher performance, principals’ evaluations of teachers’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills and test-score based measures of teachers’ productivity. We find that principals can distinguish between high and low performing...
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