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Chapter 10. Housing Valuations of School Performance
Black, Sandra E.; Machin, Stephen - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 485-519). 2011
In this Chapter, we critically review the sizable literature that values school quality and performance through housing valuations. While highly variable in terms of research quality, the literature consistently finds housing valuations to be significantly higher in places where measured school...
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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Are you on the right track? : the effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary
Hermann, Zoltán - 2013
The paper attempts to identify causal effects of being enrolled in different educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and performed similarly in the previous grade. Average...
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students’ math, reading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499810
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317253
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313885
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Understanding the response to high-stakes incentives in primary education
Bach, Maximilian; Fischer, Mira - 2020
This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … tracking system. Our results show that the need to perform well to qualify for a better track raises students' math, reading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314944
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The long-term effects of early track choice
Dustmann, Christian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Schönberg, Uta - 2014
Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235841
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The long-term effects of early track choice
Dustmann, Christian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Schönberg, Uta - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 603, pp. 1348-1380
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Between facts and perceptions: The area close to school as a context factor in school leadership
Schwarz, Alexandra; Brauckmann, Stefan - 2015
Concepts of new school governance did considerably change the role and responsibilities of school principals. Due to the shift in their role from administrator to manager, recent research tends to focus on management activity, but little is still known about the interrelation between changing...
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