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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte - 2011
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280661
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Under pressure? : the effect of peers on outcomes of young adults
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. -- Education ; peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965640
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120843
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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
Black, Sandra E. - 2010
variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141770
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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte - 2011
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379666
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Causal effects of parents' education on children's education
Ermisch, John; Pronzato, Chiara - 2010
The paper shows that parents' education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that … an additional year of either mother's or father's education increases their children's education by as little as one …-tenth of a year. There is evidence that father's education has a larger effect than that of mothers: one explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288981
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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005
Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the effects of school resources from the effects of pupils? family background,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274211
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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background
Haegeland, Torbjörn; Raaum, Oddbjorn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the effects of school resources from the effects of pupils' family background,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318780
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The timing of instruction time : accumulated hours, timing and pupil achievement
Bingley, Paul; Heinesen, Eskil; Krassel, Karl Fritjof; … - 2018
Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test scores and has been used to identify modest positive causal effects for instruction hours in certain grades. We exploit administrative data on delivered and timetabled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910714
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168