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Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education
Brunello, Giorgio - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 7-10
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2003
or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260550
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The impact of truancy on educational attainment: A bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as...
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
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Aus 2 mach 1: Die bundesweite Zusammenlegung von Haupt- und Realschulen zur Oberschule
Baum, Katja - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 18 (2011) 4, pp. 29-32
Die Debatte über eine bundesweite Zusammenlegung von Haupt- und Realschule ist spätestens seit der Vorstellung des neuen „Bildungskonzeptes“ der CDU wieder angefacht worden. Durch die Integration beider Schularten zu einer Oberschule sollen vor allem der Ruf der Hauptschule als...
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Heterogeneity in high math achievement across schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competition
Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - 2012
many more high-achieving students than the average school. Gender-related differences and other breakdowns are also …
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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012
This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …
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Peer effects: Evidence from secondary school transition in England
Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to … secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at … age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect sizes are small. These secondary school peer effects originate …
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