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One-to-one technology and student outcomes
Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017
New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...
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Comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers
Jordahl, Henrik (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008
In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...
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How do crises affect schooling decisions? : evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over "typical" years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...
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Wage bargaining and the (dynamic) mincer equation
Andini, Corrado (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of specific assumptions, the standard static Mincer equation can be thought as a particular case of a dynamic wage equation. Particularly, we argue that the standard static Mincer...
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Social interactions and schooling decisions
Lalive, Rafael (contributor);  … - 2006
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
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Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England and Wales : what do we know?
Manning, Alan (contributor);  … - 2006
selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … looking at the effect of secondary school environment on achievement at age 11 and controlling for age 7 achievement. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309269
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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Does education engender cultural values that matter for economic growth?
Bangwayo-Skeete, Prosper F.; Rahim, Afaf; Zikhali, Precious - 2009
achievement motivation as an aspect of culture that engenders economic growth. If specific cultural values engender economic … individual places on economic achievement vis-à-vis traditional social norms. Results suggest that individuals with higher … education levels attach higher importance to values related to autonomy and economic achievement as compared to conformity to …
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Parental labor market success and children's education attainment
Ochsen, Carsten - 2008
This study examines the effects of parental labor market activities on children's education attainment. In contrast to the existing literature we consider parental experiences until the children graduate from school. In addition, the effects of the regional economic environment during teacher's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886300
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Country performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Henseke, Golo - 2009
This study seeks to explain country differences in the performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Hypotheses on the relationship between, on one hand, performance at the Olympiads and, on the other, population size and dynamics, economic resources, human capital, schooling quantity...
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