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The Impact of Peer Ability and Heterogeneity on Student Achievement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Kiss, David - Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative … - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of peer achievement and variance on math achievement growth. It exploits exogenous variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders. Parents and schools are barely able to condition their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911519
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Understanding low achievement in English Schools
Kingdon, Geeta; Cassen, Robert - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications inEngland. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievementand its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role ofstudents’ personal characteristics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354011
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Student and Teacher Attendance: The Role of SharedGoods in Reducing Absenteeism
Banerjee, Ritwik; King, Elizabeth M.; Orazem, Peter F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
A theoretical model is advanced that demonstrates that, if teacher and student attendancegenerate a shared good, then teacher and student attendance will be mutually reinforcing.Using data from the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, empirical evidence supportingthat proposition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360698
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Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Haegeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859580
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement:Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua David; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Phillip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in atimely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategiesdesigned to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at alarge Canadian university. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861520
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Fair Ranking of Teachers
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin - Universität <Wuppertal> / Fachbereich … - 2006
Economic theory suggests that it is optimal to reward teachers depending on therelative performance of their students. We develop an econometric approach, based onstochastic frontier analysis, to construct a fair ranking that accounts for the socio-economicbackground of students and schools and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866563
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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data
Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with … ability, motivation, education, and other aspects of the youngperson’s experience which differ between families, but are not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353994
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Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising Context and Raising Quality
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354052
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Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling:Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen> - 2011
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational andsingle-sex classes on the academic performance of female highschool students. Our estimation results show that single-sexschooling improves the performance of female students inmathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302677
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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?
Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354030