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Pupil-teacher gender interaction effects on scholastic outcomes in England and the USA

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

girls fair better with a teacher of their own gender? This paper investigates the presence of such ‘pupil-teacher gender … England and the USA for data from 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2003. We find evidence of gender interaction effects in the form of … gender interaction effects in England (but not the USA) at grade 8 by 2003 when these effects were not present in 1995 or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370044

Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 2002

is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010

particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self … significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained …. -- Mathematics test score gap ; gender ; share of female teachers ; self-confidence …

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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Poor background or low returns? : why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in PISA

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005

Student performance of Germans and immigrants differed greatly in the 2000 PISA study. This paper analyses why the two groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with imputed data. The difference in the test scores is...

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Discrimination in grading? : experimental evidence from primary school

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009

; discrimination ; grading ; pupils with migration ; background …

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Double standards - are disadvantaged students being graded more leniently?

Himmler, Oliver (contributor); Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2007

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...

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Educational opportunities and the role of institutions

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005

opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297

Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590

The behavioralist goes to school : leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance

Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2012

Decades of research on behavioral economics have established the importance of factors that are typically absent from the standard economic framework: reference dependent preferences, hyperbolic preferences, and the value placed on non-financial rewards. To date, these insights have had little...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550106

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