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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards : Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2004

incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … pressure not to study. The experiment studied here used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all students in … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …

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Class size and the regression discontinuity design: the case of public schools

Cohen Zada, Danny; Gradstein, Mark; Reuven, Ehud - 2009

Using a rich individual-level dataset on secondary public schools in Israel, we find strong evidence for discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at cutoff points induced by a maximum class size rule. Our findings extend existing work that documents...

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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001

The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...

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Does immigration affect the long-term educational outcomes of natives? Quasi-experimental evidence

Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2005

This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their native peers, the empirical...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …

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High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2004

Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of...

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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2003

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany. On average, German students participating in this standardized test performed considerably below the OECD average and substantially worse than those of other European countries, like Finland or Ireland....

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools : Understanding the Changing Role of Ability

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2004

Previous work by the authors suggested that during the 1970s and 1980s, a person?s early cognitive ability became a less important determinant of his or her eventual educational achievement. Furthermore, over the same time period, family background started to have a greater impact on a person?s...

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