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education system has fostered the growth of a diverse tutoring market. In general secondary school, tutoring has become a social … expectation that leads teachers and students to shirk in school to devote more attention to tutoring. In basic education, teacher … pressure is a major motivation for public school students to take tutoring. In order to reduce the prevalence of tutoring and …
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being taught by a standard deviation better than average...
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group discussion and lecturing used in their school, including a battery of individual, teacher, and school controls, as … well as random intercepts by school. For robustness we use instrumental variables and methods to account for school …
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This paper investigates the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on learning outcomes of secondary school …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is … and schools for a German state, I exploit within school and within teacher variation to determine teacher characteristics …' effects on students' tracking outcomes. Germany tracks students at age 10 into more or less academic school types. I find …
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qualifications to teach these subjects. This paper examines the effects of individual teacher characteristics and school context on … of out-of-field teaching in STEM subjects. In particular, it examines the role of school autonomy and staff shortage in … either mediate or confound their effects. A full understanding of the results requires knowing the role of school funding and …
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qualifications to teach these subjects. This paper examines the effects of individual teacher characteristics and school context on … of out-of-field teaching in STEM subjects. In particular, it examines the role of school autonomy and staff shortage in … either mediate or confound their effects. A full understanding of the results requires knowing the role of school funding and …
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during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school-age children who were exposed …-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. We find beneficial …
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
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Union countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Based on student-level data … books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric …
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