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The impact of child labor and school quality on academic achievement in Brazil
Bezerra, Márcio Eduardo G.; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia; … - 2009
We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB). We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques, where the instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269166
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Corrupting learning: Evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012
student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption … questionnaires, we also find that school inputs such as computer labs, teaching supplies, and teacher training are reduced in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287581
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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?
Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2006
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268010
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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276628
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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012
Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261900
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where the public schools essentially were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268732
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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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