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Should We Increase Instruction Time in Low Achieving Schools? Evidence from Southern Italy

Battistin, Erich; Meroni, Elena Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower secondary schools of Southern Italy. We control for … group across grades and the composition of teachers in the school assigned to each group is substantially stable over time …. We contrast groups with and without additional instruction time in participating schools, to groups in non …

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Class Size, Instruction Time and Central Exit Examinations : disentangling the Relative Contributions to Scholastic Achievement

Wiermann, Christian - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2005

We analyze the effects of instruction time and class size on student achievement in Germany. Using econometric … effects differ across federal states and individuals: Additional instruction time in states with central exit examinations … size accompanied by a decrease in instruction time can be a cost neutral instrument to raise student performance in states …

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2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 151-166

One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and 40% minority. This paper studies the effects...

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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data

Arias, Omar; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Hallock, Kevin F. - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40

Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases arising from unmeasured ability and measurement error. Recent work has investigated whether there are variations from the "mean" return to education across the population with mixed...

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