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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401711
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Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo E.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank … effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597466
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - 2014
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481584
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105056
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The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance
Kießling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816637
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The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352303
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Long-term effects of class size
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278630
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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, … - 2022
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. We measure these skills using the Finnish Defence Forces Basic Skills Test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351857
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The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
Morando, Greta; Platt, Lucinda - 2022
The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351974
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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216287