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Teacher expectations matter
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Gershenson, Seth; Kang, Kyungmin - 2016
nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
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Does Teacher Quality Affect Student Performance? Evidence from an Italian University
De Paola, Maria - 2016
teaching sections during their first year, we are able to analyze the effect that teachers with different characteristics, in …'s undertaking additional courses in a subject, while more experienced teachers have a negative impact. However, also this effect …
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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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The heterogeneous impacts of business cycles on educational attainment
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational attainment is countercyclical, as found in other studies, but also find that the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528135
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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298109
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Delayed graduation and overeducation : a test of the human capital model versus the screening hypothesis
Aina, Carmen; Pastore, Francesco - 2012
The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link between graduation not within the minimum period and overeducation, and the effects of these...
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Effects of ethnic geographical clustering on educational attainment in the Netherlands
Graaff, Thomas de; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001
Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...
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Family background, cohort and education : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447159
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Delayed Graduation and Overeducation : A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis
Aina, Carmen - 2012
The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link between graduation not within the minimum period and overeducation, and the effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108626
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The Impact of Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education Among Guatemalan Adults
Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere; … - 2012
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by using unique longitudinal data begun during...
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