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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment

Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016

This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...

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Immigration and Native Children's Long-Term Outcomes

Hung, Yi-Ju - 2023

Does exposure to immigrants affect native children’s economic opportunities? Leveraging the linked U.S. censuses in the early 20th century, I study immigration’s cross-generation effect on the native-born. I examine the causal impact of childhood exposure to immigrants on natives’...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

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Determinants and consequences of student test scores : evidence from international, big, and text data

Sancassani, Pietro - 2023

Pietro Sancassani prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institut … subject-specific qualification, a major in education, or their level of experience - on student science test scores in ten … media data and student test scores at the regional level. Finally, Chapter 5 shows that the salience of the education topic …

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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - 2024

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...

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Unionization and productivity : evidence from charter schools

Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...

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Determinants of teacher value-added in public primary schools : evidence from administrative panel data

Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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