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The long-run impacts of same-race teachers
Gershenson, Seth; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Lindsay, … - 2017
proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631480
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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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The heterogeneous impacts of business cycles on educational attainment
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational attainment is countercyclical, as found in other studies, but also find that the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528135
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The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational attainment is countercyclical, as found in other studies, but also find that the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559595
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Non-native speakers of English in the classroom: What are the effects on pupil performance?
Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282279
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Mental health and education decisions
Cornaglia, Francesca; Crivellaro, Elena; McNally, Sandra - 2012
Mental health problems - and depression in particular - have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282352
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The kid's speech: The effect of stuttering on human capital acquisition
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2011
A number of studies have shown that childhood speech impairments such as stuttering are associated with lower test scores and educational attainment. However, it is unclear whether this result is causal in nature or whether it can be explained by difficult-to-measure heterogeneity at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285985
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Income Equality, School Performance and Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2011
Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is depending on income equality on the local level. Using Swiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168371
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Educational Attainment, Wages and Employment of Second-Generation Immigrants in France
Langevin, Gabin; Masclet, David; Moizeau, Fabien; … - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2013
We use data from the Trajectoires et Origines survey to analyze the labor-market outcomes of both second-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment and lower wages than French natives. We find however...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854397