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The impact of television programmes on teenage career aspirations : the 'MasterChef effect'
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2016
cooking reality show MasterChef, in which the chef profession is portrayed as exciting and glamorous. Using panel data methods … and controlling for several potential confounding variables, the analysis attempts to separate the effect of MasterChef … that an increase of one percentage point in the audience of MasterChef is associated with an increase in the proportion of …
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Ranking teachers when teacher value-added is heterogeneous across students : preprint
Stacy, Brian - 2014
The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students' achievement increases after being exposed to the teacher, or based on the teacher's "value-added''. When teacher value-added is heterogeneous across her students, the typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439171
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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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Do changes in student quality affect teacher mobility? : evidence from an admission reform
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2014
This paper examines teachers’ mobility in response to exogenous changes in the credentials of their students using data from Stockholm high schools. I explore a major admission reform that lead to the reshuffling of students between schools within the municipality of Stockholm. The results...
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Testing for Bias in Graduate School Admissions
Attiyeh, Gregory; Attiyeh, Richard E. - 1997
This paper provides an empirical examination of the factors that influence graduate admissions decisions. It exploits a unique, large data set on applications and admissions to forty-eight leading graduate schools in five disciplines, including economics. The analysis shows that these graduate...
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260975
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2005
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267577
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Inside the 'Black Box' of Project STAR: Estimation of Peer Effects Using Experimental Data
Boozer, Michael A.; Cacciola, Stephen E. - 2001
The credible identification of endogenous peer group effects -- i.e. social multiplier or feedback effects -- has long eluded social scientists. We argue that such effects are most credibly identified by a randomly assigned social program which operates at differing intensities within and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369180
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The Effects of Class Size on the Long Run Growth in Reading Abilities and Early Adult Outcomes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study
Boozer, Michael A.; Maloney, Tom - 2001
This paper utilizes the feature of the CHDS data from New Zealand that children are sampled for extremely long individual histories of their class size experiences as well as their scholastic and early labor market outcomes. Our interest is to explore the full set of empirical implications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369253
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Inside the "black Box" of Project STAR : estimation of peer effects using experimental data
Boozer, Michael A.; Cacciola, Stephen E. - 2001
The credible identification of endogenous peer group effects - i.e. social multiplier or feedback effects - has long eluded social scientists. We argue that such effects are most credibly identified by a randomly assigned social program which operates at differing intensities within and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609548