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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany
Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018
In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
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Charter schools and the segregation of students by income
Dalane, Kari; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021
The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools …
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Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom
Arcidiacono, Peter; Foster, Gigi; Goodpaster, Natalie; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 421-470
Obtaining consistent estimates of spillovers in an educational context is hampered by at least two issues: selection into peer groups and peer effects emanating from unobservable characteristics. We develop an algorithm for estimating spillovers using panel data that addresses both of these...
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Educational inequality and the returns to skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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Better off on their own? : how peer effects determine international patterns of the mathematics gender achievement gap
Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: November 2020
IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …
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The impact of local labour market conditions on school leaving decisions
Tumino, Alberto; Taylor, Mark P. - 2015
demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions in Britain. We explicitly incorporate the role … education and social norms, outweigh economic considerations among students from higher socio economic backgrounds, who tend to … enrol in higher education irrespectively of labour markets conditions. …
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Who chooses which private education? : theory and international evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
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An analysis of the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage and school quality on the probability of school dropout
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2013
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro-level data in combination with its longitudinal...
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An estimation of worker and firm effects with censored data
González de San Román, Ainara; Rebollo-Sanz, Yolanda F. - 2014
In this paper, the authors develop a new estimation method that is suitable for censored models with two high-dimensional fixed effects and that is based on a sequence of least squares regressions, yielding significant savings in computing time and hence making it applicable to frameworks in...
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