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Does it Matter Which School a Student Attends?

OECD - 2013

Successful education systems are able to guarantee that all students succeed at high levels. Across OECD countries, around 60% of the overall, country-level variation in student performance can be traced to differences in how well students who attend the same school can be expected to perform....

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Does it matter how much time students spend on line outside of school?

OECD - 2016

average across OECD countries, 7% of students spend this much time on line during a typical weekday. …

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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2017

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...

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The use of student fixed effects in explaining grade outcomes : estimating revealed grit

Azevedo, Christopher D.; Crooker, John R. - In: Journal of economic insight : (formerly the journal of … 50 (2024) 1, pp. 1-51

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Teacher Discrimination of High School Students, and Its Effect on Labor Market Outcomes

Alne, Ragnar - 2020

Gender differences in school performance, raises the question of why one gender under-performs. Discrimination is one potential reason, and here I exploit a systemic structure in Norwegian high schools that allows me to identify the level of gender discrimination in grade setting. The results...

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Estimating the Effects of Dormitory Living on Student Performance

de Araujo, Pedro; Murray, James - 2010

Many large universities require freshman to live in dormitories on the basis that living on campus leads to better classroom performance and lower drop out incidence. Large universities also provide a number of academic services in dormitories such as tutoring and student organizations that...

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on College Admission and Earnings : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Matta, Rafael; Ribas, Rafael P.; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2019

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether...

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Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement

Gershenson, Seth - 2014

that persist over time. Second, teachers who improve test scores do not necessarily improve student attendance, suggesting …

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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006

, teachers setting higher standards and more time devoted to homework. Taking more rigorous courses and studying harder increase …

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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …-achievers disproportionately replaced learning time with detrimental activities such as TV or computer games rather than with activities more …

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