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Educational achievement and the allocation of school resources
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Jha, Nikhil - 2013
The school resources - educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget allocation decisions using panel data. Per-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787344
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Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2013
The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget allocation decisions using panel data. Per-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074035
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Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2013
The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget allocation decisions using panel data. Per-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077308
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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401806
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Gender gaps in early educational achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388336
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591440
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594543
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Are young people's educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?
Barón, Juan D.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010
education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272037
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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to their Sense of Control?
Barón, Juan D.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568282
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Schooling and self-control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah C.; Kamhöfer, … - 2024
While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality … educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496124