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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...

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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...

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A Model of Educational Attainment Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2008

This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual framework relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of education to decide on the optimal amount of education they...

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Does Juvenile Delinquency Reduce Educational Attainment?

Ward, Shannon; Williams, Jenny - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of delinquency in youth on subsequent educational attainment. To do so, we focus on delinquent acts committed by age 16 and examine their impact on two measures of educational attainment: high school graduation and college graduation. Using information on males...

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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...

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Family background, cohort and education : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

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Delayed graduation and overeducation : a test of the human capital model versus the screening hypothesis

Aina, Carmen; Pastore, Francesco - 2012

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