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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - 2014
differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … to social and instrumental skills and need for achievement can explain part of the differences in performance. Boys seem …
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Only a matter of time? : the role of time in school on four-day school week achievement impacts
Thompson, Paul N.; Ward, Jason - 2021
Previous evidence has shown disparate achievement impacts of the four-day school week across state contexts. This paper … examines the impacts of the four-day school week on achievement and achievement gaps across 12 states to contextualize these …-day school week use from 2009-2018. We find negative impacts for both math and ELA achievement when examining four-day school …
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Chapter 8. School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 383-421). 2011
the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math. The effects on teachers and …
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Free to improve? : the impact of free school attendance in England
Bertoni, Marco; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Silva, Olmo - 2023
We investigate the impact of attending a free school in England - that is, a new start-up school that enjoys considerable autonomy while remaining in the state sector. We analyse the effects of two secondary free schools with different teaching philosophies: one follows a "no excuse" paradigm,...
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Does money matter for schools?
Holmlund, Helena (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2008
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
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The effects of mixed-age classes in Sweden
Johansson, Elly-Ann (contributor);  … - 2008
Mixed-aged classes (MA-classes) are a common phenomenon around the world. In Sweden, these types of classes increased rapidly during the 1980:s and 1990:s. But the scientific evidence of the benefits of MA-classes is not convincing. In this paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class...
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Bestimmungsfaktoren des Erwerbs der allgemeinen Hochschulreife in Deutschland
Balsmeier, Benjamin (contributor); Peters, Heiko (contributor) - 2008
Für Deutschland als ressourcenarmes Hochlohnland ist die Bildung von Humankapital ein bedeutender Faktor für das Wirtschaftswachstum. Im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung mit einem tertiären Bildungsabschluss relativ gering. Durch die...
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Classroom peer effects and student achievement
Burke, Mary A. (contributor); Sass, Tim Roger (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set...
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Impact of voucher design on public school performance : evidence from Florida and Milwaukee voucher programs
Chakrabarti, Rajashri (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce...
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Does the early bird catch the worm? : Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor);  … - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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