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Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : what do we know about them?
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We … programs ; incentives on inputs and outputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153571
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Minimum wages and vocational training incentives in Germany
Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2017
vocational training. The theoretical impact of wage floors on educational incentives is ambiguous: on the one hand, they raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715729
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021
. Another (incentives) was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third … offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades or other … that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in response to a …
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The effect of Teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 113-125
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we examine the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we generally find that TFA teachers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729870
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The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720075
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THE LONG-LASTING EFFECTS OF SCHOOL ENTRY AGE: EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN STUDENTS
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2011
Using data for 9, 13 and 15-year-old students from three different datasets (PIRLS-2006, TIMSS-2007 and PISA-2009), we investigate whether the age at school entry affects children school performance at the fourth, eighth and tenth grade levels. Since student’s age in a grade may be endogenous,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805610
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The long-lasting effects of school entry age: Evidence from Italian students
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 578-599
Using data for 9, 13 and 15-year-old students from three different datasets (PIRLS-2006, TIMSS-2007 and PISA-2009), we investigate whether the age at school entry affects children school performance at the fourth, eighth and tenth grade levels. Since student's age in a grade may be endogenous,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785253
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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449883
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The effect of teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293220
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The unintended effects of the Common Core State Standards on non-targeted subjects
Arold, Benjamin W.; Shakeel, M. Danish - 2021
From 2010 onwards, most US states have aligned their education standards by adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for math and English Language Arts. The CCSS did not target other subjects such as science and social studies. We estimate spillovers of the CCSS on student achievement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550368