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Chapter 8. School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 383-421). 2011
the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math. The effects on teachers and …
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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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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education
Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002
public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … results also show that family school choice is gender biased, females are sent more often to voucher schools while males are … sent more often to private (non voucher) schools. In addition, the TSLS estimates show that females gain less than males …
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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools : evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018
") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools in Sweden's most disadvantaged city districts. The aim of the …
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Robustness report: "Going to a better school: effects and behavioral responses", by Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola (2013)
Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...
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Intercultural Bilingual Education Program for Better Performance in Schools The case of the Indigenous Children of the Amazon
Alvarado, Betty M. - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013
This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the non-Spanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas, Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735916
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The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria
Ochmann, Sophie; Owolabi, Kehinde Elijah; … - 2021
year after implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools' infrastructure, educational attainment or learning … implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools' infrastructure, educational attainment or learning outcome measures. Our …
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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2006
and central exams furthers integration, while social segregation of students among schools is detrimental to educational …
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Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011
We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304336
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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
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