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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Aina, Carmen - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance : A Literature Review

Amez, Simon - 2019

We present the first systematic review of the scientific literature on smartphone use and academic success. We synthesise the theoretical mechanisms, empirical approaches, and empirical findings described in the multidisciplinary literature to date. Our analysis of the literature reveals a...

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele - 2014

Italian universities, where incentives operate only through promotion, and where all appointment panels are drawn from … constructed dataset which collects the journal publications of all Italian academics working in universities.We find that …

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Who Benefits from Tuition-Free, Top-Quality Universities? Evidence from Brazil

Duryea, Suzanne; Ribas, Rafael P.; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2023

This paper investigates the long-term impact on earnings of attending a tuition-free, top-quality university in Brazil. We identify the causal effect through a sharp discontinuity in an admission process based on test scores. If admitted, low-income students are found to increase their earnings...

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The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation : A Survey

Aina, Carmen - 2018

This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in tertiary education is a sequential process made under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty...

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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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The Importance of School Systems : Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Schuetz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

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Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to … universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to … financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their …

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