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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2006-PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational achievement for Italian students enrolled at the fourth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421988
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland
Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790057
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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland
Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836355
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Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools in six countries. A reanalysis of three PISA data sets
Dronkers, J; Avram, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In international comparative studies on academic achievement, the distinction between private government-dependent schools and private-independent schools has been proven particularly important for understanding the differences in the effectiveness of the private and public school sectors....
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Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
Levels, Mark; Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers; Kraaykamp, Gerbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries and immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we performed analyses on the mathematical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529208
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
based on gender, race and caste. These roles of social sector development have catapulted it to centre-stage of research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Perceptions of female leadership from three co-ops in British Columbia
Lans, Cheryl - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper presents research on existing female leaders of co-operatives and their perceptions of differences between their leadership styles and that of men. It is an early exploration with a small empirical base. Women contemplating careers in co-ops need to see or read other female leaders in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211854
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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