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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis

Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011

disadvantaged members of the society. The main objectives of the paper are to describe to what extent the education and healthcare …

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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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Education System Reform in Pakistan: Why, When, and How?

Aziz, Mehnaz; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Jimenez, … - 2014

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …

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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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"A" is the aim?

Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016

This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...

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Student aid and the distribution of educational attainment

Jones, Maggie - 2016

I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these...

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The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home

Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Montenegro, Guadalupe - 2016

This document investigates the effect that the delivery of XO laptops in Peru has had on teachers' pedagogical practices and students' use of time in the home based on information from a randomized control trial. The results show that the delivery of XO laptops reduces the probability that...

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Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

Gordon, James; Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2018

(i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find …

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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

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