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Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias

Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfeifer, Christian; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 10/12, pp. 1049-1052

If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student performance may remain obscured until this kind of sorting has been taken into account. Using data from student evaluation surveys, we confirm that it is crucial to control for...

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A review of assessment of student learning programs at AACSB Schools : a Dean's perspective

Kelley, Craig A.; Tong, Pingsheng; Choi, Beom Joon - In: Journal of education for business 85 (2010) 5, pp. 299-306

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Crime and punishment : the role of student body characteristics in schools' disciplinary behaviours

Bekkerman, Anton; Gilpin, Gregory - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 13/15, pp. 1402-1415

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The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers : evidence from North Carolina middle schools

Ahn, Thomas; Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...

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Test-Mex : estimating the effects of school year length on student performance in Mexico

Agüero, Jorge M.; Beleche, Trinidad - In: Journal of development economics 103 (2013), pp. 353-361

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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students

Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177

rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of the students who change schools go to a school of the same or worse …

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The impact of better school accessibility on student outcomes

Asahi, Kenzo - 2014

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Do school budgets matter? : the effect of budget referenda on student performance

Lee, Kyung-Gon; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data … from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression … approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity …

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The effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings: a regression-discontinuity approach

Matta, Rafael; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-25

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Krægpøth, Morten Visby; … - In: Economics of education review 45 (2015), pp. 1-13

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