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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
variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders … a large pool of elementary school pupils. I find positive peer effects on achievement growth and no effects for peer …
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 … correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role ofsorting into schools and neighborhoods of different … quality. We suggest a method ofcalculating school quality (how effective a school is in helping its pupils to avoid …
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
most powerful factor raising teacher attendance is the attendance of thechildren in the school, and the most important …
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
effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non …-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to compensate (or reinforce) differences in child … abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased.[...] …
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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The Effect of State Workers' Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal SocialSecurity Disability Insurance
McInerney, Melissa; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
In addition to traditional forms of private and public medical insurance, two other large programshelp pay for costs associated with ill health. In 2007, Workers Compensation (WC) insurance provided$55.4 billion in medical care and cash benefits to employees who are injured at work or contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870314
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The Impact of Bologna Process on the GraduateLabour Market: Demand and Supply
Bosio, Giulio; Leonardi, Marco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
significantly lower collegepremium with respect to high school graduates than pre-reform graduates.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353910
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Refinancing Europe’s Higher Education through Deferredand Income-Contingent Fees: An empirical assessmentusing Belgian, German and UK data
Vandenberghe, Vincent; Debande, O. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via highertuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investmentand offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasetson Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353990
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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
There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from poorerbackgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with students. It isnot clear, however, that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353994