students, by gender, ability and field of study. The results suggest that time spent on attending courses is positively … associated with grades for females, high ability students and students of Social Sciences and Sciences/Engineering. Spending time … with grades for almost all students. Devoting time for attending tutorials or student work groups is negatively correlated …

academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of … using data from first year undergraduate students of economics in the academic year 1998-99 at the University of Ancona …

than teacher assignment for student achievement and also play a substantial role in the time students spend on homework …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many …. The availability of students' test scores as well as teachers' questionnaires for each of these domains allows me to … of teacher specialization in the specific science domain on students' results, equivalent to 1.7% of a standard deviation …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

Auswirkungen auf die Finanzkompetenz. Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften beantworten die "Big Three"-Fragen mit höherer … determinants of financial literacy among students at a German university. An additional goal is the identification of gender … results suggest a rather low level of financial literacy among female students. Additional factors such as a very good …