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Bullying effect on student's performance
Oliveira, Felipe Resende; Menezes, Tatiane; Irffi, Guilherme - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 1, pp. 57-73
This article seeks to measure the effect of bullying in math scores of students in the 6th grade of public (Nansel et al., 2001). school in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil with the use of data from a survey by Joaquim Nabuco Foundation in 2013. The methodology applied is Propensity Score...
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Subsidized Vocational Training: Stepping Stone or Trap? An Evaluation Study for East Germany
Dettmann, Eva; Günther, Jutta - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the formally equal qualifications acquired during a subsidized vocational education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis of a statistical distance function, we are able...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271395
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Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs: Improving employability and preventing disability?
Westlie, Lars - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of five different vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs on the hazard rates into employment, disability and temporarily withdrawals from the labor market for persons who face severe problems in re-entering the labor market, mostly due to medical problems....
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Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs : improving employability and preventing disability?
Westlie, Lars (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of five different vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs on the hazard rates into employment, disability and temporarily withdrawals from the labor market for persons who face severe problems in re-entering the labor market, mostly due to medical problems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763079
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Subsidized vocational training : stepping stone or trap? ; an evaluation study for East Germany
Dettmann, Eva; Günther, Jutta - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the formally equal qualifications acquired during a subsidized vocational education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis of a statistical distance function, we are able...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928720
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Do Better Roads Increase School Enrollment? Evidence from a Unique Road Policy in India
Mukherjee, Mukta - 2013
In 2001, a national infrastructure development program was initiated in India to construct new all-season roads (roads that can be used in all-weather especially monsoons) in villages that previously had only had dry-season roads (roads that are difficult to use in monsoons). The eligibility...
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Migration policy can boost PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan - 2012
yet affected by the change in the migration policy, with the PISA 2009 test. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis … migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment) results from 2000, which were not …, we find that almost 70% of the 43-point increase (more than one standardized school year) in the PISA scores of first …
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Publicizing the results of standardized external tests : does it have an effect on school outcomes?
Anghel, Brindusa; Cabrales, Antonio; Sainz, Jorge; Sanz … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-20
-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA study from 2000 to 2009. We later confirm our results using synthetic control methods …
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector. Resource availability per pupil has increased significantly over the past decade in a number of countries; often in attempting to exploit the link between educational attainment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730631
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert; Joumard, Isabelle; … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector. Resource availability per pupil has increased significantly over the past decade in a number of countries; often in attempting to exploit the link between educational attainment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445903