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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
light on this discussion by analyzing the health effects of a reform in Germany where total years of schooling for students …A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … health effects for females while they are still in school. However, after graduation, females even seem to benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657744
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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools
Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017
light on this discussion by analyzing the health effects of a reform in Germany where total years of schooling for students …A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … health effects for females while they are still in school. However, after graduation, females even seem to benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663397
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The impact of peer achievement and peer heterogeneity on own achievement growth : evidence from school transitions
Kiss, David - 2013
This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127858
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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? : evidence from Germany
Krekel, Christian - 2017
educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi …-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638874
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Learning intensity effects in students' mental and physical health : evidence from a large scale natural experiment in Germany
Hofmann, Sarah; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - In: Economics of education review 67 (2018), pp. 216-234
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003340
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Learning intensity effects in students' mental and physical health : evidence from a large scale natural experiment in Germany
Hofmann, Sarah; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2017
In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS … vitality and on emotional balance. We also observe significant impacts on self-assessed general physical health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812578
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Who's minding the kids? : experimental evidence on the demand for child care quality
Gordon, James; Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2018
Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly an explicit goal of government policy. However, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951025
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Do children benefit from internet access? : experimental evidence from a developing country
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926187
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The impact of peer ability and heterogeneity on student achievement : evidence from a natural experiment
Kiss, David - 2011
ability-tracked and compre-hensive school ; natural experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811140
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The Causal Effects of Increased Learning Intensity on Student Achievement : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2015
I exploit a unique educational policy - implemented in most German states between 2001 and 2007 - that reduced high school duration by one year while keeping its curriculum unaltered to investigate how the resulting increase in learning intensity affected student achievement. Using 2000-2009...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019235