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The determinants of teacher mobility: Evidence using Italian teachers’ transfer applications
Barbieri, Gianna; Rossetti, Claudio; Sestito, Paolo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1430-1444
Of particular importance for education policy-makers is the possibility that teacher mobility adversely affects the … quality of teaching in schools serving mainly disadvantaged and minority children. This paper examines the main drivers of the … mobility of Italian teachers by using applications-to-transfer data. We find that teachers systematically try to move away from …
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Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies
Aleksynska, Mariya; Tritah, Ahmed - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 229-244
This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...
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Does more schooling improve health outcomes and health related behaviors? Evidence from U.K. twins
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Spector, Tim D. - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 134-148
Several recent studies using instrumental variables based on changes in compulsory school-leaving age laws have estimated the causal effect of schooling on health outcomes and health-related behaviors in the U.K. Despite using the same identification strategy and similar datasets, no consensus...
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Ramadan, fasting and educational outcomes
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 219-226
Using a difference-in-differences framework, we estimate the impact of Ramadan on educational outcomes of Muslim students living in a non-Muslim country. For identification we exploit that the number of Ramadan weeks during the course that we study, varies from year to year, ranging from zero to...
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Incentives for teacher relocation: Evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 120-136
teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in … the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools … recipient schools close to the distance threshold. Further analysis suggests that these gains were not merely the result of …
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The relationship between schooling and migration: Evidence from compulsory schooling laws
McHenry, Peter - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 24-40
I estimate the effect of schooling on the propensity to migrate by exploiting variation in schooling due to compulsory schooling laws (CSLs) in the United States. I obtain negative estimates of this effect among those with relatively little schooling. In contrast, previous research estimates...
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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 reform in Germany reduced the length of academic track schooling by one year, while increasing instruction hours in the remaining school years to provide students with a very...
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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
educational expectations using data from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were given …
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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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Gender gaps in primary school achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 176-187
determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the …
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