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The academic achievement of American Indians

Fischer, Stefanie; Stoddard, Christiana - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 135-152

The academic achievement of American Indians has not been extensively studied. Using NAEP supplements, we find that the average achievement relative to white students resembles other disadvantaged groups. However, there are several differences. Family characteristics explain two times as much of...

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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 … production function at different points along the achievement distributions. With the use of Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition, the … decomposition exercise along the achievement percentile shows that these characteristics account for about 12–15 percent low …

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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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Relationship between private schooling and achievement: Results from rural and urban India

Chudgar, Amita; Quin, Elizabeth - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 4, pp. 376-390

This paper contributes to the important but small body of research on the role of private schools in Indian education. It uses a household dataset from India with a rich set of household covariates and student performance data on reading, writing, and mathematics. For both rural and urban India...

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Gender gaps in primary school achievement

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 176-187

In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...

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Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return

Henderson, Daniel J.; Polachek, Solomon W.; Wang, Le - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1202-1214

This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...

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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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