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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
School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures … Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes … on students' long-run outcomes are more difficult to judge. It is also clear that school personnel respond to …
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Poland since 1920. Education as a Positional Good
Wroński, Marcin - 2021
In this paper, we analyse intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920. In that period, Poland regained independence, experienced a massive loss of life in World War Two, changed borders, transited to state socialism after 1945, and finally in 1989 transited to democracy and free...
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Skills and inclusive growth in Sweden
Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bussi, Margherita; André, Christophe - 2015
. Many immigrants struggle both in school and in the labour market partly because of low skills and language difficulties …
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Education and Poverty in Vietnam : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Cloutier, Marie-Hélène - 2014
Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education, accompanied by corresponding tax cuts, in a general...
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Further Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
Rouse, Cecilia E. - 1998
In a recent and widely cited paper, Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994) use a new sample of identical twins to test whether schooling represents an investment in human capital or is merely a proxy for genetic ability. I re-examine Ashenfelter and Krueger's estimates using three additional years of...
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of age and gender
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-37
We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian linked panel data. Findings highlight that educational credentials have a stronger impact on productivity than on wage costs. Firms’ profitability is found to rise when lower...
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The effect of school starting age on academic performance in Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia (contributor) - 2007
The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using …). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting the exogenous variation in school starting age driven by the …
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A New Data Set of Educational Inequality in the World, 1950-2010 : Gini Index of Education by Age Group
Wail, Benaabdelaali; Hanchane, Said; Kamal, Abdelhak - 2014
The research on educational inequality plays an essential role in characterizing the fairness and effectiveness of educational systems, and monitoring and evaluating processes of educational development. This paper introduces a new quinquennial data set of educational inequality of 146...
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2009
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education...
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Chapter 3. Education and Family Background : Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 201-247). 2011
In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified during...
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