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, propensity score matching is applied to account for possible self-selection into international mobility. Our empirical analysis …
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This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000 …-2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through …
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We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for...
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This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000 …–2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826246
institutional changes in schooling systems. The introduction of standardized student tests and of incentives for schools and …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by … Schulen und Lehrer sind prominente Beispiele für solche Reformen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen dieser …
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We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 and apply a difference-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA...
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the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies … are state schools that are allowed to run in an autonomous manner which is free from local authority control. Almost all … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our …
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This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since they also reflect teachers' ratings of pupils. Grades therefore contain valuable information about pupils' own - usually unknown - ability. The incorporated assessment in grade...
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This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...
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data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates suggest that, on average, students benefit from …
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