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Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282333
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439058
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462634
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Does additional spending help urban schools? : an evaluation using boundary discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012
; education ; resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530341
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Stephen - 2014
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066746
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The Impact of Brazil’s 'Broadband at School Program' on Student Achievement
Silva, Simone Juhasz - 2014
, instructor, and school level variables such as household assets, parental education and involvement with student activities, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056546
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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2021
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether … resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317192
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324901
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The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria
Ochmann, Sophie; Owolabi, Kehinde Elijah; … - 2021
the Nigerian Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP) in Sokoto state, Nigeria. School-based management committees … received both a training and a grant to improve access to and quality of primary school education, especially for girls. One … and uptake of primary school education to avoid spending 100 million USD on a program with no discernable impact …
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas; Eifert, Benn; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552059