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Does Teacher Quality Affect Student Performance? Evidence from an Italian University

De Paola, Maria - 2016

In this paper we analyse whether the characteristics of university teaching staff matter with regards students' performance and interest in the discipline. We use data on about one thousand students enrolled on the first level degree course in Business and Economics at a medium sized Italian...

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Inequality in education in Costa Rica: the gap between students in public and private schools : an analysis of the results of the programme for international student assessment (PI...

Fernández A., Andrés; Del Valle A., Roberto - In: CEPAL review (2013) 111, pp. 37-56

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ICT and students' performance in Pakistan

Salam, Shafaq; Yang, Mengke; Shaheen, Aliya; … - In: Human systems management : HSM 36 (2017) 4, pp. 277-284

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Wealth inequalities in perceptions of school quality in Pakistan

Talancé, Marine de - 2016

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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries

Woessmann, Ludger - 2006

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...

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Public-Private Partnership and Schooling Outcomes Across Countries

Woessmann, Ludger - 2006

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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Braga, Michela - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities

Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012

Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school …

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Intergenerational mobility and schooling decisions in Germany and Italy : the impact of secondary school tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - In: Rivista di politica economica 102 (2013) 7/9, pp. 7-57

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