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Do federal reserve bank presidents have a regional bias?
Jung, Alexander; Latsos, Sophia - 2014
This paper examines whether the interest rate preferences of Federal Reserve Bank Presidents are subject to a regional bias. In order to evaluate the regional bias hypothesis, we augment individual Taylor rules for the Federal Reserve Bank Presidents (sample 1989 to 2006) with regional variables...
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The horizon effect of stock return predictability and model uncertainty on portfolio choice: UK evidence
Li, Guangjie - 2009
We study how stock return's predictability and model uncertainty affect a rational buy-and-hold investor's decision to allocate her wealth for different lengths of investment horizons in the UK market. We consider the FTSE All-Share Index as the risky asset, and the UK Treasury bill as the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288809
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Decomposing international gender test score differences
Munir, Farzana; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018
In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …)equality also contributes to girls' disadvantage. For reading, at the upper end of the talent distribution, girls' advantage can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916770
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The Literacy Hour
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - 2004
Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261775
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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read: A randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278706
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Decomposing international gender test score differences
Munir, Farzana; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 52 (2018) 12, pp. 1-17
In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …)equality also contributes to girls' disadvantage. For reading, at the upper end of the talent distribution, girls' advantage can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208416
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Same-sex role model effects in education
de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023
We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...
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