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Does early educational tracking contribute to gender gaps in test achievement? : a cross-country assessment
Lorenz, Theresa; Schneebaum, Alyssa - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 5-36
On average, boys score higher on math achievement tests and girls score higher in reading; these gaps increase between primary and secondary school. Using PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS data, we investigate the role of early educational tracking (sorting students into different types of secondary...
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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270570
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007
secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277084
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Whose children gain from starting school later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Kollo, Janos - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278579
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494714
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil
Chioda, Laura; de Mello, João M. P.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282275
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910