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Do you get what you pay for with school-based health programs? Evidence from a child nutrition experiment in rural China
Sylvia, Sean; Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; … - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 1-12
increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are …
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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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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie Helene Grøne; Krægpøth, Morten … - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 1-13
This paper estimates how peers’ achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort....
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Does competition improve public school efficiency? A spatial analysis
Misra, Kaustav; Grimes, Paul W.; Rogers, Kevin E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1177-1190
Advocates for educational reform frequently call for policies to increase competition between schools because it is argued that market forces naturally lead to greater efficiencies, including improved student learning, when schools face competition. Researchers examining this issue are...
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Why women are progressive in education? Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 196-206
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions: A Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 515-523
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …
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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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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Redmond, Cathy - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1136-1152
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school: Evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 47-65
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem, and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject...
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How to improve pupils’ literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project
Massoni, Sébastien; Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 84-91
The Action Lecture program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils’ literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact...
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