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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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One-to-one technology and student outcomes

Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017

impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school …

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Teaching, technology and test scores : the impact of personal computers on student performance in primary school

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin - 2023

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an … implementing 1:1 technology. Nevertheless, all positive impacts in subgroups appear to be rather small, amounting to 0.01-0.03 SD …

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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2004

This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread phenomenon in Turkey. Private tutoring centers are commonly referred to as "dersane" in Turkish. This...

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The role of specific subjects in education production functions: Evidence from morning classes in Chicago Public High Schools

Cortes, Kalena E.; Bricker, Jesse; Rohlfs, Chris - 2010

Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...

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Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2007

This paper first describes the educational system in Turkey and the two national examinations for advancing upper levels of schooling which give raise to the demand for private tutoring called "dersane" in Turkish. Second, the evolution of the Private tutoring Centers (PTC) are described and...

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International Evidence on School Tracking: A Review

Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 07 (2009) 1, pp. 26-34

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The effects of school integration : evidence from a randomized desegregation program

Bergman, Peter - 2016

This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...

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Gender performance gaps : quasi-experimental evidence on the role of gender differences in sleep cycles

Lusher, Lester; Yasenov, Vasil - 2016

Sleep studies suggest that girls go to sleep earlier, are more active in the morning, and cope with sleep deprivation better than boys. We provide the first causal evidence on how gender differences in sleep cycles can help explain the gender performance gap. We exploit over 240,000...

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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...

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