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Teacher expectations matter
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Gershenson, Seth; Kang, Kyungmin - 2016
nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528117
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Teacher Expectations Matter
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Gershenson, Seth; Kang, Kyungmin - 2016
nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559593
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External Monitors and Score Manipulation in Italian Schools: Symptomatic Treatment or Cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141227
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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106802
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Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308437
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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK
Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434599
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Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy? : school outcomes of Dragon children of China
Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han - 2020
In Chinese culture, those who are born in the year of the Dragon are believed to be destined for good fortune and greatness, and parents prefer their kids to be born in a Dragon year. Using provincial level panel data, we first show that the number of marriages goes up during the two years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295654
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The effect of grade retention on adult crime: evidence from a test-based promotion policy
Eren, Ozkan; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Mocan, Naci - 2020
This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296116
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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazıcı, Hakkı - 2017 - This version: November 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761058
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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017
This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that the education mobility is significantly lower in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763903