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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005
, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes beyond the estimation of direct effects of textbooks on students' learning …
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Incentives and services for college achievement: evidence from a randomized trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270626
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
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Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Webber, Douglas A.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2009
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure categories during the last two decades. We use institutional level panel data and a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269633
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How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?
Behncke, Stefanie - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269120
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Writing Matters
Feld, Jan; Lines, Corinna; Ross, Libby - 2023
For papers to have scientific impact, they need to impress our peers in their role as referees, journal editors, and members of conference committees. Does better writing help our papers make it past these gatekeepers? In this study, we estimate the effect of writing quality by comparing how 30...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268010
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282615
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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
learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261593
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653263