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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Academic achievement and tracking : a theory based on grading standards
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2019
We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to extend knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability...
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Education platform for more cooperation among schools
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 158-159
The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Class size: does it matter for student achivement? : smaller classes are often associated with increased achievement, but the evidence is far from universal
Jepsen, Christopher - 2015
the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: evidence from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
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Mentoring, educational services, and economic incentives: Longer-term evidence on risky behaviors from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …
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Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more homework?
Eren, Ozkan; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2011
Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...
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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies
Siegler, Benedikt - 2015
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …
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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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