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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432192
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Using admission lotteries to estimate heterogeneous effects of elite schools
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ruijs, Nienke; Wolf, Inge de - 2020 - This version: March 2020
This paper studies the effects of enrollment in an elite school on students’ achievement. We use that elite schools in Amsterdam are often oversubscribed and admission is based on lotteries. Our results show that elite schools have negative effects on achievement of students who just qualify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012204671
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Using Admission Lotteries to Estimate Heterogeneous Effects of Elite Schools
Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
This paper studies the effects of enrollment in an elite school on students' achievement. We use that elite schools in Amsterdam are often oversubscribed and admission is based on lotteries. Our results show that elite schools have negative effects on achievement of students who just qualify for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836446
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Long-term effects of school-starting-age rules
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Meulen, Simon ter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2020
To study the long-term effects of school-starting-age rules in a setting with early ability tracking, we exploit the birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just after the threshold perform better at the end of primary school than students born just before it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295206
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Can Competitiveness Predict Education and Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Incentivized Choice and Survey Measures
Buser, Thomas - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840143
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Can Competitiveness Predict Education and Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Incentivized Choice and Survey Measures
Buser, Thomas - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825973
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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2003
This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing all first year requirements before the start of their second academic year. Participants were assigned to a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088778
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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2021
This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme … gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary … schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319293
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469645
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The hidden divide : school segregation of teachers in the Netherlands
Friperson, Rafiq; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2023 - This version: June 2023
We use Dutch register data to document the understudied phenomenon of teacher segregation. We show that teachers in primary and secondary schools in the four largest cities of the country - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht - are segregated in terms of their migration and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014299603