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Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement

Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022

It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...

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Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

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Can Raising Instructional Time Crowd Out Student Pro-Social Behaviour? Evidence from Germany

Krekel, Christian - 2018

educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi …

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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? : evidence from Germany

Krekel, Christian - 2017

educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi …

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Rational Students and Resit Exams

Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...

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Rational students and resit exams

Kooreman, Peter - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 213-215

Resit exams–extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year–are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two exam...

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Education and family background : mechanisms and policies

Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified...

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Informal unemployment and education

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36

This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational attainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available for low-educated workers. A...

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Academic Achievement and Tracking - a Theory Based on Grading Standards

Ehlers, Tim - 2019

We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our … knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … compromise standard which exceeds the standard from the low ability track. Moreover, if students with lower initial ability have …

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Academic Achievement and Tracking – A Theory Based on Grading Standards

Ehlers, Tim - 2016

We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our … knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … no synergy effects from teaching different students together. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a …

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