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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...

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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021

. Another (incentives) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third … offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades or other … that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in response to a …

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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019

This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...

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Bullying effect on student's performance

Oliveira, Felipe Resende; Menezes, Tatiane; Irffi, Guilherme - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 1, pp. 57-73

This article seeks to measure the effect of bullying in math scores of students in the 6th grade of public (Nansel et al., 2001). school in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil with the use of data from a survey by Joaquim Nabuco Foundation in 2013. The methodology applied is Propensity Score...

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Long Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School

Leuven, Edwin - 2017

How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples' long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not find any indication of beneficial effects of class size reduction in...

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How Does Education Improve Cognitive Skills? Instructional Time versus Timing of Instruction

Dahmann, Sarah C. - 2015

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing of instruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...

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The effects of free secondary school track choice : a disaggregated synthetic control approach

Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggregated synthetic control...

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The effects of free secondary school track choice: a disaggregated synthetic control approach

Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

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The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking

Canaan, Serena - 2019

Grouping students by ability is a controversial issue, and its impacts are likely to depend on the type of tracking students are exposed to. This paper studies a reform that moved French schools from a rigorous tracking system, which assigned students to tracks with significantly different...

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