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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
Brandt, Kasper - 2018
This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883407
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The impact of peer ability and heterogeneity on student achievement: Evidence from a natural experiment
Kiss, David - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of peer achievement and variance on math achievement growth. It exploits exogenous variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders. Parents and schools are barely able to condition their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304297
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Incentives for Students: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments
Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2012
Incentives are widely used to increase people's effort and thus performance. Whileacademic achievement depends heavily on effort, there is little empirical evidence onhow students respond to incentives other than grades and monetary rewards. We drawon two natural experiments that occurred at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312079
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The impact of peer achievement and peer heterogeneity on own achievement growth : evidence from school transitions
Kiss, David - 2013
This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127858
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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663397
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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645905
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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657744
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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P.T.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Veneri, Paolo - 2012
This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326155
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The educational bias in commuting patterns : micro-evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Veneri, Paolo - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723012
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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006
exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294526