This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine …

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it … teacher's students.The differences are large in magnitude and statistically significant. The year-to-year stability level of … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students' social and work behavior in the … comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students' school-to-work transitions as well as … consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors. …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

Shall we encourage students to work while in school? We provide evidence by leveraging a one-year work-study program … that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data matched to over 120,000 applicants, we …. Students mainly substitute leisure and household chores with work. The earnings effect is related to the work experience and …

This article seeks to measure the effect of bullying in math scores of students in the 6th grade of public (Nansel et … Foundation in 2013. The methodology applied is Propensity Score Matching (PSM) in order to compare students who reported having … suffered bullying with a control group, consisting of students who did not suffer bullying. Specifically, we aim to understand …