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The determinants of high school closures: lessons from longitudinal data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - 2009
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school closure decisions from 1991 through 2005. Our...
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less...
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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005
As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...
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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?
Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2006
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012
Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2017
modern empirical agenda. This essay traces the divergent development of econometric teaching and empirical practice, arguing …
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Why Join a Team?
Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
teaching future teammates. Participants perform a real-effort task and decide whether to work independently or join a two … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … is driven by expected future financial gains from teaching rather than some variety of pro-social preferences. This …
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Do Grow-Your-Own Programs Work? Evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, Ramon - 2024
/18% for Black girls), countering a prevailing narrative that teaching leaves one worse off financially relative to other …
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How School Principals Influence Student Learning
Dhuey, Elizabeth; Smith, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals. We measure the effect of principals on gains in primary test scores in North Carolina and estimate the standard deviation of principals' value added to be 0.12 -0.17. We find...
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International Education and Economic Growth
Bergerhoff, Jan; Borghans, Lex; Seegers, Philipp K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of continental Europe these costs are not levied on students,...
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