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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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A Stable and Social Europe: Fiscal Rules, a Stabilization Fund, Insolvency Rules, Gender Quota, Gender Pension Gaps, and Education. Reports

Fratzscher, Marcel; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Michelsen, Claus - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 148-159

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Stabiles und soziales Europa: Fiskalregeln, Stabilisierungsfonds, Insolvenzregeln, Gender Quote, Gender Pension Gaps, Bildung. Berichte

Weinhardt, Felix; Hammerschmid, Anna; Rowold, Carla; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 18, pp. 310-321

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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...

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Who teaches the teacher? A RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factorin determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robustquantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can havelasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, weconduct...

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The Risks and Benefits of School Integration for Participating Students: Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program

Bergman, Peter - 2018

receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-To-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Murphy, Richard J.; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931696

Who Teaches the Teachers? A Rct of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Wyness, Gillian; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932981

Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2004

to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and …

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