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One-to-one technology and student outcomes
Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017
New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...
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The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012
This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use exogenous variation from a mandatory reform of compulsory schooling in West Germany to deal with the endogeneity of schooling. In contrast to studies for other developed...
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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?
Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...
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Early tracking and the misfortune of being young
Schneeweis, Nicole; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009
within a grade is related to his or her achievement, and that this effect is decreasing over grades. Thus, age …-related achievement differences probably translate into age-related differences in track choice if track choice has to be made early. In …
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Teacher job satisfaction, student achievement, and the cost of primary education in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Michaelowa, Katharina - 2002
Low teacher motivation and its detrimental effect on student achievement are central problems of many education systems … in Africa. Using standardized data for student achievement in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d`Ivoire, Madagascar and … ensuring control and incentive related working conditions for teachers, significantly increase student achievement while …
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Heterogenity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2005
This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to their parents' educational outcomes using data on...
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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297451
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice
Landvoigt, Tim; Muehler, Grit; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany. Our analysis is based on a panel of 12 to 14-year olds with information from age two on, drawn from the German SocioEconomic Panel (GSOEP) 1984?2005. We estimate binary...
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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition
Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - 2002
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298087