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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores : evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Bartolini, Stefano; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794500
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Education, political discontent, and emigration intentions : evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Kunt, Pinar; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019 - Revised: 10 June 2019
effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029159
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Keep calm and carry on : the short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance
Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449256
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Keep calm and carry on : the short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance
Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455246
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Keep calm and carry on : the short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance
Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455698
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309457
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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?
Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541013
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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Kraegpøth, Morten Visby; … - 2015
This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477534
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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital
Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014
creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406921
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016