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Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Dave, Dhaval M.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Das, … - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1399-1415
welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational … education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work … education (including college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational …
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Compressing instruction time into fewer years of schooling and the impact on student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - In: Economics of Education Review 58 (2017), pp. 1-14
Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental …
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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
black students’ education levels in terms of years of schooling, while having a modest increase on white students’ years of …
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Teacher behavior under performance pay incentives
Jones, Michael D. - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 148-164
Over the last decade many districts implemented performance pay incentives to reward teachers for improving student achievement. Economic theory suggests that these programs could alter teacher work effort, cooperation, and retention. Because teachers can choose to work in a performance pay...
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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
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we examine the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we generally find that TFA teachers...
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The impact of peer achievement and peer heterogeneity on own achievement growth: Evidence from school transitions
Kiss, David - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 58-65
This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in...
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What is behind the decline in student achievement in Australia?
Ryan, Chris - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 226-239
Australian school student achievement in reading and mathematical literacy has fallen in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) collection since 2000. This study finds that these declines were widespread in the student population, affecting both males and females. However, the...
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School crowding, year-round schooling, and mobile classroom use: Evidence from North Carolina
McMullen, Steven C.; Rouse, Kathryn E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 812-823
student achievement in Wake County, NC. We also estimate the effects of two education policy initiatives that are often used …
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The long-run impacts of early childhood education: Evidence from a failed policy experiment
DeCicca, Philip; Smith, Justin - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 41-59
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a policy experiment …
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2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 151-166
One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and 40% minority. This paper studies the effects...
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