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Cultural Gender Norms and Neighbourhood Exposure: Impacts on the Gender Gap in Math

Ericsson, Sanna - 2020

the gender gap in math for second-generation immigrants. By contrasting the outcomes of opposite-sex siblings, I show that …

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Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms

Graetz, Georg; Karimi, Arizo - 2019

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent … than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for natives. Comparison …

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Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018

A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...

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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...

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Same-sex teacher effects

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2024

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender inequalities. However, we do not know the size or generalizability of such same-sex teacher effects. We fill this gap by conducting a meta-analysis and our own study using data...

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Teaching, technology and test scores: The impact of personal computers on student performance in primary school

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin - 2023

The closing of schools and shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one...

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Parents know better: Sorting on match effects in primary school

Ovidi, Marco - 2022

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the achievement of students who are as good as randomly...

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The value of a peer

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2020

This paper introduces peer value-added, a new approach to quantify the total contribution of an individual peer to student performance. Peer value-added captures social spillovers irrespective of whether they are generated by observable or unobservable peer characteristics. Using data with...

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