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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473274
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Instruction time and student achievement : the moderating role of teacher qualifications
Wedel, Katharina - 2021
Recent evidence suggests a positive effect of the quantity of instruction on student achievement. In this paper, I focus on the interaction between the quantity and the quality of instruction. Using international TIMSS data, I exploit within-student between-subject variation. I find that on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405290
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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion
Wedel, Katharina - 2024
Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490033
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The heterogeneous effects of early track assignment on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026043
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It pays to study for the right job : exploring the causes and consequences of education-occupation job mismatch
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Saavedra Caballero, Fabiola - 2019
With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974795
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Inequalities in education across Canada : lessons for the pandemic
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2020
cognitive skills. In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada using PISA data. We use … PISA tests scores over 7 cycles, from 2000 to 2018, to provide an exhaustive portrait of the evolution of the tests scores … differences in PISA scores, in reading, maths and science, are large but unwavering. In other words inequality by SES is stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219488
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The evolution of cognitive skills inequalities by socioeconomic status across Canada
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2020
In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 … PISA scores, in reading, maths and science, are large but unwavering. In other words inequality by SES is stable, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225456
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Socioeconomic gradient literacy and numeracy skills of 15-year-olds across Canadian provinces and years using the PISA surveys (2000-2012)
Lefebvre, Pierre - 2016
In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge … PISA test scores in reading and math. The SES used is more conventional then the arbitrary character of the index developed … by PISA. First, average gaps in students' educational attainment between the lower and top SES quintiles, across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152887
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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data
Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023
This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228646
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355