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The impact of all-day schools on student achievement : evidence from extending school days in German primary schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2020
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299552
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The Impact of All-Day Schools on Student Achievement - Evidence from Extending School Days in German Primary Schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223667
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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
schools, this study offers important evidence on their effectiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434576
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421182
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The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools : Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Fasos
Kazianga, Harounan - 2017
discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to … 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in non …-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start school on time, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965144
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Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2012
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099717
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Ability grouping and student performance : experimental evidence from middle schools in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an average learning gain of 0.08 of a standard deviation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474559
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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment : Evidence from School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
-day schools on several measures of the quality of mothers’ jobs, which were correlated to working full-time. We also found small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095847
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Where all students can succeed
OECD - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251094
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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486016