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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student … roughly 25 percent accruing to institutional variation. Student performance is higher with external exams and budget …

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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia

Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger - 1999

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Why are single-sex schools successful?

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Kwak, Do Won - 2017

We exploit two unusual policy features of academic high schools in Seoul, South Korea - random assignment of pupils to high schools within districts and conversion of some existing single-sex schools to the coeducational (coed) type over time - to identify three distinct causal parameters: the...

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School Age, Student Achievement and Structural Breaks

Miankhel, Adil Khan - 2022

on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) public education system experienced system wide governance … incorporating the structural breaks to estimate the impact of school age on student achievement by dividing the ACT public schools … level data of student standardized test scores namely National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) scores in …

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The effect of refugees on native adolescents' test scores: quasi-experimental evidence from Pisa

Tumen, Semih - 2021

Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor market. In this paper, I test whether refugee influx can also increase the intensity of human capital...

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The Effect of Refugees on Native Adolescents' Test Scores : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from PISA

Tumen, Semih - 2021

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Do university policies matter? : effects of course policies on performance ; conference paper

Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2013

allow us to estimate the difference in the differences of student performance in a compulsory second-year course …

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How does reducing the intensity of tracking affect student achievement? : evidence from German state reforms

Piopiunik, Marc - 2021

significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269