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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children’s schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

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Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes : the case of "shrinkage" estimators

Mehta, Nirav - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1537-1577

Researchers commonly "shrink" raw quality measures based on statistical criteria. This paper studies when and how this transformation's statistical properties would confer economic benefits to a utility‐maximizing decision‐maker across common asymmetric information environments. I develop...

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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

We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 and apply a difference-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA...

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Efficiency of university education : a partial frontier analysis

Viana, Rafael Antonio; Arranz, José M.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-16

This article investigates the efficiency of the university education using two linked databases (Saber Pro and Saber 11) from the Colombian Institute for Evaluation of Education (ICFES) corresponding to 2014. We use a non-parametric frontier approach that combines the "order m" technique with...

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Architecture to transform classic academic courses into adaptive learning flows with artificial intelligence

Bobocea, Andrei; Bologa, Răzvan; Bătăgan, Lorena; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 26 (2024) 65, pp. 363-380

The literature on adaptive learning suggests that it can provide significant improvements to the educational process and numerous studies have found a necessity for personalised learning, which is one of the strong suits of adaptive learning. Adaptive learning platforms require that content be...

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Population and economic growth : ancient and modern

Brezis, Elise S.; Young, Warren - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 23 (2016) 2, pp. 246-271

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Stochastic dominance and demographic policy evaluation : a critique

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 82 (2016) 1, pp. 111-138

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The preference for scarcity : a developmental and comparative perspective

John, Maria; Melis, Alicia P.; Read, Daniel; Rossano, … - In: Psychology & marketing 35 (2018) 8, pp. 603-615

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Intrahousehold inequalities in child rights and well-being : A barrier to progress?

Rodríguez, Laura - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 83 (2016), pp. 111-134

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Imitation of peers in children and adults

Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg; … - In: Games 9 (2018) 1/11, pp. 1-15

is prevalent in the behavior of children aged between 8 and 10. Surprisingly, we find that imitation seems to be … cognitively demanding. Most children in this age group ignore information about others, foregoing substantial learning …-based imitation of peers may be harder for children to perform than non-success-based imitation of adults. …

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