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Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education
Brunello, Giorgio - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 07-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056433
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Central Exams as the "Currency" of School Systems: International Evidence on the Complementarity of School Autonomy and Central Exams
Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56
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What Next for School Vouchers?
Peterson, Paul E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 57-61
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048494
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School Choice and School Quality in the US
Nechyba, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 4, pp. 33-38
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652074
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School Exclusion as Social Exclusion: The Practices And Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the Poor in Bangladesh
Hossain, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2009
rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976650
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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421988
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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) 04, 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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Better schools for Europe.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001
We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520128
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520285