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The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376809
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696802
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697058
Non-cognitive skills are important predictors of success on the labour market and in many areas of economic and social … explanatory factors behind the recent boost of the predictive power of non-cognitive skills over life cycles. It shows how the … cognitive and non-cognitive skills on the labour market. The most effective tools of noncognitive skill development in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028735
-functioning institutions assume that citizens should have possess both cognitive and non-cognitive skills required by modern technology and … organization. Economic analyzes on the subject show that non-cognitive skills in the developed countries' labor market are becoming … more and more important. In many cases, the lack of non-cognitive skills is the very cause of the inefficiencies of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290249
Non-cognitive skills are important predictors of success on the labour market and in many areas of economic and social … explanatory factors behind the recent boost of the predictive power of non-cognitive skills over life cycles. It shows how the … cognitive and non-cognitive skills on the labour market. The most effective tools of noncognitive skill development in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714262
-functioning institutions assume that citizens should have possess both cognitive and non-cognitive skills required by modern technology and … organization. Economic analyzes on the subject show that non-cognitive skills in the developed countries' labor market are becoming … more and more important. In many cases, the lack of non-cognitive skills is the very cause of the inefficiencies of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011009
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494702
The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494474