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of primary school children (grades 1 through 8) in 45 schools in Hungary. The goal of the program was to compensate for …
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Since their first implementation in 2000, the PISA studies have attracted public attention and spurred the demand for institutional changes in schooling systems. The introduction of standardized student tests and of incentives for schools and teachers are notable examples of such institutional...
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This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine the ir implications for the local educational market … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …
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This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
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public schools to transfer to a private school. This gives us the unique opportunity to evaluate the incentive character of a … private school competition threat in school accountability systems. Using administrative student-level data from Florida and a … overall incentive effect of the sanction regime. This leads to conclude that the public school choice option, which remained …
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Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no …
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, we find much smaller gains to delayed school start times compared to previous studies. …
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shows how the centuries-old tradition of travelling gradually changed towards a stationary school system on different …
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the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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introduced school vouchers or cash transfers programs that are targeted to disadvantaged children. Others have initiated programs … to attract or retain students by expanding school access or by setting higher teacher eligibility requirements or … the incentives and constraints faced by all parties involved, the school providers, the parents and the children. The …
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