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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement
Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022
achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which, for a period of time, allowed any graduate, regardless of their major, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493849
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Good schools or good students? : evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495675
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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money : a life cycle perspective
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023
mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and … education subsidies can reduce inequality, due to an estimated dynamic complementarity between time investments and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372120
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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Inequalities in responses to school closures over the course of the first COVID-19 lockdown
Cattan, Sarah; Farquharson, Christine; Krutikova, Sonya; … - 2021
. Pupils who returned to school saw their learning time rise substantially, even conditional on observable and unobservable … the course of the lockdown; instead, learning time fell among those who were not offered the chance to return to school … characteristics. However, while the opportunity to return to in-person schoolingat least part-time was relatively evenly distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582670
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The short- and long-term effects of student absence : evidence from Sweden
Cattan, Sarah; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
which cumulate to larger human capital losses over time and lead to worse labor market performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583331
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Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving education outcomes : evidence from high-frequency text messages
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2021
We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a program that sends attendance, grade, and classroom behavior information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584593
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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London
Ovidi, Marco - 2021
Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in London primary schools. I exploit as good as random...
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Siblings' spillover effects on college and major choice : evidence from Chile, Croatia and Sweden
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2019 - Latest version: December 19th, 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214260
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Learning about opportunity: spillovers of elite school admissions in Peru
Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie; Hatrick, Agustina - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444413