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Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - 2008
exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277119
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Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education
Brunello, Giorgio - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 7-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696485
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School choice and competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201321
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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan
Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471904
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan
Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476891
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Peers or parents? : on non-monetary incentives in schools
Wagner, Valentin; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
This paper presents the result of a field experiment on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on pupils' achievement on a mathematical multiple choice test. Our sample consists of 2113 pupils of deprived and high-achieving secondary schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011385405
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Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools : Problems and Findings
Cipollone, Piero - 2010
Students' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school's effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using the results...
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649748