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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment

Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016

- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …

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Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns

Kiener, Fabienne; Gnehm, Ann-Sophie; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: International journal of manpower 44 (2023) 4, pp. 772-788

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How does context influence entrepreneurship education outcomes? : empirical evidence from Bangladesh and Germany

Dickel, Petra; Kleemann, Linda; Bose, Tarun Kanti - In: International journal of entrepreneurial venturing 11 (2019) 3, pp. 283-308

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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...

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