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Can skills differences explain the gap in track recommendation by socio-economic status? Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Maria Zumbuehl, Nihal Chehber, Rik Dillingh
Tracking early in the school career can significantly influence a student's educational path. Using data from a Dutch cohort study linked with administrative records, we examine the gap in track re...
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience: a history of thought Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Barry R. Chiswick
This paper is a review of the literature in economics on the effect on earnings of human capital investment from Adam Smith to the early 1980s. It discusses the use of the net present value (NPV) t...
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC: linking education policies to productivity Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve, David Turner
This paper develops a new measure of human capital, calculated as a cohort-weighted average of the quality of education (PISA scores) and the quantity of education (mean years of schooling). Contra...
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Developing reading fluency in primary school: evidence from an RCT Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Matheus Gomes, Guilherme Hirata
This paper assesses the impact of a program aimed at developing reading fluency in Brazilian students in primary school. Students were randomly assigned to participate in the program. The program w...
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The short-term effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez, Mónica Yanez-Pagans
We study the short-term effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index to classify municipalities by cases and infection r...
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Do college students demand lower tuition for online learning? Empirical evidence from choice experiments during COVID-19 Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 H. Holly Wang, Yizhou Hua, Christine Wilson
To address student concerns about full tuition rates while taking online courses during COVID-19, we conducted choice experiments at a representative U.S. land-grant university to elicit students’ ...
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More A’s and I get to stay? How grading influences employment outcomes for contingent faculty Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Veronica Sovero, Amanda L. Griffith
Research has shown that changes in job security cause changes in grading behavior for lecturer faculty, but the impact of grading practices on future workload assignments is unknown. In this paper ...
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The medium-term impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on educational outcomes in England Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yuyan Jiang
This paper uses longitudinal data from England to examine the medium-term impact of a means-tested conditional cash transfer programme, Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), on higher educational ...
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Foundational learning program evaluation and dropouts: are dropouts a heterogeneous group? Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-01-30 David Gray, Louis-Philippe Morin
We analyze the characteristics and outcomes of a Canadian foundational learning program's dropouts and compare them with those of the completers. We find significant heterogeneity within dropouts a...
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A comparison between two systems of university education: years of study versus credit accumulation Education Economics Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Catherine Dehon, Léonore Lebouteiller
A recent major reform of higher education has changed a year-based system into a credit accumulation one. We use this exogenous shock to compare the two systems. Using a longitudinal dataset of und...
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Students’ resilience and school efficiency in one of the most unequal countries in the world: empirical evidence from Colombia Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Sebastian López-Estrada, Tommaso Agasisti, Víctor Giménez, Diego Prior
This article analyzes students’ resilience in 7,789 schools in the Colombian educational system and its relationship with educational efficiency between 2014 and 2019. The empirical analysis is car...
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The effect of COVID-19 on international student credit mobility: a gravity model approach Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Giorgio Di Pietro, Adriana Pérez Encinas
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption in education. We employ a gravity model to estimate its impact on international student credit mobility. Data on inbound and outbound student...
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Collective bargaining laws and returns to STEM majors in the labor market for teachers Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Andrew Ju, Krishna Regmi
In light of growing difficulties for schools to attract teachers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and the continued discussions surrounding the unionization of edu...
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The effect of school damages on educational outcomes in post-hurricane Jamaica Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Kaywana Raeburn
Large magnitude shocks generated by natural disasters have devastating impacts on household welfare and human capital accumulation. Using a rich household dataset, I estimate the effect of destruct...
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Identifying high-quality teachers Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Kevin Ng
This study evaluates techniques to identify high-quality teachers. Since tenure restricts dismissals of experienced teachers, schools must predict productivity and dismiss those expected to perform...
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Locus of control, educational attainment, and college aspirations: the relative role of effort and expectations Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, Hubert János Kiss
We study the relationship between locus of control and both educational attainment and college aspirations in adolescence, focusing on the potential channels through which locus of control may infl...
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School innovation for continuous learning in the period of a health shock and pupils’ mental wellbeing in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Uchenna Efobi
This study focuses on the psychological consequences of school innovation for ongoing learning during the COVID-19 lockdown, which includes teaching strategies that use both online and offline (e.g...
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders: a European perspective Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Loredana Cultrera, François Rycx, Giulia Santosuosso, Guillaume Vermeylen
Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two alternative measures of over-education and control stepwise for four groups of covariates in order to interpret the over-education wage penalty i...
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Are dreams contagious? Peer effects of undocumented college students Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Federick Ngo
As a result of systemic barriers, undocumented immigrants are more likely to enroll in community colleges and to enter these institutions with higher prior academic achievement than their peers. I ...
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Spillover effects of maternal education in elementary classroom: evidence from Vietnam Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-09 My Nguyen
This paper examines the spillover effects of maternal education in elementary classrooms in the context of Vietnam. Drawing from the sample of students who are randomly assigned to classrooms, we f...
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Economies of scale and scope, merger effects, and ownership difference: an empirical analysis of universities in Japan Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Fumitoshi Mizutani, Tomoyasu Tanaka, Noriyoshi Nakayama
This paper evaluates economies of scale and scope, and the merger effect among national universities in Japan. We apply SUR for the total translog cost function in FY2014 and FY2018. The main resul...
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Effects of a large-scale program for the construction of daycare and preschool centers on cognitive skills and female employment Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Marcelo Castro, Breno da Cruz
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impacts of a large-scale program aimed at constructing daycare and preschool centers in Brazil named Proinfância, which funded new buildings in nearly 45% of the municipalities between 2008 and 2017. We find a significant increase in early education care in the jurisdictions that participated in the program more than a decade after it had started: 4 percentage points
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Gender differences in grading: teacher bias or student behaviour? Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-09-11 David Contreras
ABSTRACT This paper examines the presence of systematic differences in teachers' grading behaviour across gender and whether these can be attributed to teacher bias. This study measures these differences by comparing teachers' grades with national exams, which are externally and anonymously marked. Consistent with the literature, the gender gap in teacher grading is against boys. Using a dataset with
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Assessing the spatial impact of educational attainment on poverty reduction in Thailand Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Katikar Tipayalai, Chayaton Subchavaroj
ABSTRACT Using a novel subnational-level dataset of Thailand, the results show a strong spatial association between poverty and educational attainment in Thailand. Provinces with more educated populations are more likely to have lower poverty incidence. In particular, the findings of this study suggest that attainment of tertiary education can significantly affect poverty reduction, while the negligible
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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Vladana Djinovic, Nicholas Giannakopoulos
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of home computer ownership on educational outcomes during adolescence. Using longitudinal survey data from Greece, we focus on the timing of exposure to home computers for children aged 14–18 and find that those without computer access have a 10 percentage point higher probability of dropping out of school compared to those with access. Employing a panel event study
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Do small high schools affect rates of risky health behaviors and poor mental health among low-income teenagers? Evidence from New York city Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Kai Hong, Syeda Sana Fatima, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Sherry Glied
ABSTRACT We evaluate the impacts of small high schools on youth risky behaviors and mental health in New York City, using a two-sample-instrumental-variable approach to address endogenous school enrollment. We find heterogeneous effects. School size, overall, has little effect. Among students most likely to attend small schools opened after an educational-achievement-oriented reform, however, diagnoses
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Examining grade loss aversion – the importance of reference points Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Sudipta Roy, Caleb Lewis
ABSTRACT Goal setting and grade loss aversion have individually been found to be effective motivators for student performance. We combine these two strategies to investigate, in a university setting, the effectiveness of grade endowment within a goal-setting framework. Our participants set grade goals which some must earn the traditional way, thus framed as ‘gains’, while others are awarded their target
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Would you follow the advice? The effect of school guidance on students’ academic success Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Tommaso Agasisti, Filippo Bolzoni, Mara Soncin
ABSTRACT This research explores the effect of orientation advice (OA), which is an instrument aimed at supporting pupils during their first transition from middle to high school. We investigate whether being ‘ambitious’ (i.e. rejecting OA and choosing a more challenging track) influences grade 9 retention probability. Data from 28 schools from Piacenza (Italy) are combined with those of the Italian
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No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Jens Ruhose, Stephan L. Thomsen, Insa Weilage
ABSTRACT Adult education may keep older workers productive if they voluntarily engage in learning. Examining a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that encouraged early retirement among male workers, we estimate voluntary adult education activities for early retirees. Using county-level administrative data on all public adult education centers (Volkshochschulen; VHS), we employ a difference-in-differences
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Month of birth and aspirational career choice: a gender perspective Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Pilar Beneito, Javier Soria-Espín, Óscar Vicente-Chirivella
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of students' month of birth (MOB) on their university career choices. Specifically, we analyze whether the oldest students in their academic cohorts show more aspirational preferences when expressing their first choice of university degree. Using administrative records for students in a large university district and applying a sharp regression discontinuity
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Arrested development: relative school entry age and arrests during the teenage and young adult years Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Asha Shepard
ABSTRACT A large literature documents that there are significant academic and non-academic differences between the youngest and oldest students in a school cohort. This paper investigates if being the youngest in a cohort has any impact on an individual's propensity to commit crime by utilizing a data set that contains over 4 million arrest records spanning a 20-year period in California. While I find
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The extremely overconfident and extremely dissatisfied: a case study of an introductory macroeconomics college course Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Marlon Williams
ABSTRACT In this paper, I first provide additional evidence of the prevalence and severity of the problem of student grade overconfidence. I do so by documenting the level of overconfidence that exists in an introductory macroeconomics course. In this course, 75% of the 614 students earned a grade that was below what they expected. I also find that students who expect that their actual grade will fall
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Birth order, socioeconomic background and educational attainment Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Andra Hiriscau, Mihaela Pintea
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of birth order on educational attainment in the United States and the underlying mechanism producing these effects. Using a family fixed effects model, we find negative birth order effects on educational outcomes. However, this effect varies depending on the household's income, being the strongest for households with the highest income and diminishing as households'
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General adult education of displaced workers in a recession: the effects on university enrollment and graduation Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Anders Lindström
ABSTRACT This article studies a sample of displaced workers during the deep 1990s recession in Sweden and estimates the effect of secondary-level adult education on tertiary-level educational attainment. Plant closures and mass layoffs are used to identify job separations unrelated to individual productivity. Results indicate a large positive effect of general adult education on displaced workers’ further
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University-to-work transitions in Germany – do graduate job seekers benefit from migration and work experience? Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Christian Teichert, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Anne Otto, Anja Rossen
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of migration and work experience on university-to-work transitions of German university graduates. We use a job search model, signaling and social network theory to discuss different links between the duration of labor market entry, graduate mobility and work experience. We apply event history analyses and make use of administrative social security records
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Child bodyweight, cognitive abilities, and well-being: evidence from West Bank schools Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Sameh Hallaq
ABSTRACT The present study investigates the effect of obesity and overweight on children’s cognitive abilities and well-being using survey data from West Bank schools. The results show the significant adverse impact of obesity on a child's well-being by raising externalizing (behavioral) problems and increasing the probability of classifying a child with abnormal mental health difficulties, according
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Impact of education on inequality across the unconditional wage distribution in Cameroon Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Francis Menjo Baye, Ebenezer Lemven Wirba, Ernest Ngeh Tingum
ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the impact of education on inequality using the recentered influence function regression and standard inequality measures. Results indicate that between 2005 and 2010, the returns to education declined from the 10th to the 50th percentiles, but increased at the upper tail of the distribution. Inequality is lower in the counterfactual education-equalising distribution,
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College quality as revealed by willingness-to-pay for college graduates Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-03 John J. Green, Peter F. Orazem, Nicole S. Swepston
This study measures college quality by the amount by which the college adds to the salary of its students above what the median market value would be for the same majors and student quality. Common...
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Local prescription opioid use and academic achievement Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Alexander H. Bentz
This paper provides evidence on the effect of local prescription opioid use on academic achievement of 3rd–8th graders between 2009 and 2018. Using county fixed effects models, I find that when cou...
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Education-occupation mismatch and social networks for Hispanics in the U.S.: role of citizenship Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila
Using a sample of college-educated Hispanics from the 2016–2017 American Community Survey we examine the role of potential social networks on the education-occupation mismatch for Hispanics in the ...
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The causal effect of education on women’s empowerment: evidence from Kenya Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung, Nahashon Nzioka Nthenya
This paper investigated the impacts of education on women’s empowerment in Kenya using six waves of nationally-representative KDHS data. Our study utilizes the change in educational structure in 19...
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The land of the fee: the effect of Baden-Württemberg's tuition fees on international student outcomes Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Andreas B. Vortisch
Despite the increasing number of students learning abroad, little is known about the way international students migrate and how policies influence their decision. This article evaluates one German ...
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Friends don’t let friends drop out Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-05 John M. Krieg, Darius D. Martin, Adam C. Wright
We combine administrative data from a regional public university with a novel revealed-preference indicator of student friendships to show that socially connected first-year university students are...
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Are public sector jobs better for Ph.D. students? The association between employment sector and doctoral dropout and graduation Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Daniel Gama e Colombo
A growing number of doctoral students work during their Ph.D., which is commonly associated with higher risks of dropout. This paper investigates whether the sector of employment (public or private...
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Parental risk attitudes and child cognitive outcome in Indonesia Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Romi Bhakti Hartarto, Claudia Aravena, Arnab Bhattacharjee
The empirical link between children's cognitive ability and parental risk attitudes has been understudied. Specifically, an individual’s educational outcome may reflect the decisions made on their ...
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Student performance in online health courses Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Jamin D. Speer
The switch to remote classes disrupted higher education during the Covid-19 pandemic. Online courses have the potential to be especially disruptive in health fields, where more of the learning is h...
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Segregation by choice? School choice and segregation in England Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Ellen Greaves
School choice can segregate schools by academic ability, income or ethnicity, but is this because of households’ choices, or constraints in access to good schools? We examine whether segregation is...
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Racial quotas in higher education and pre-college academic performance: evidence from Brazil Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Guilherme Strifezzi Leal, Álvaro Choi
ABSTRACT The effects of affirmative action on the incentives to human capital accumulation are ambiguous from a theoretical perspective and the scarce empirical evidence on the matter provides mixed results. In this paper, we address this issue by investigating the impacts of Brazil’s Law of Quotas on the students’ performance in the college entrance exam, the ENEM. We provide causal evidence that
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The role of gender inequality in the overeducation and life satisfaction relationship: an empirical analysis using panel data from Korea Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Amina Ahmed Lahsen, Alan T. Piper, Ida-Anna Thiele
Despite Korea’s economic development, gender inequality in its society and the labour market is still prevalent. Within this context, this investigation considers the relationship between overeduca...
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Intergenerational educational mobility – The role of non-cognitive skills Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Anna Adamecz, Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential first-generation students make it to university and othe...
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Caste, gender, and intersectionality in stream choice: evidence from higher secondary education in India Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Anand Kumar, Soham Sahoo
We investigate how social identity, namely gender and caste, affects stream choice at the higher secondary level of schooling in India. The choice of science stream at this level is a crucial deter...
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Teaching strategy specialization and student achievement Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 María Gil-Izquierdo, Jose M. Cordero, Víctor Cristóbal
ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide evidence on whether the specialization of schools in certain teaching strategies contributes to promoting student skills. Specifically, we will focus on comparing those that make intensive use of innovative practices with those specialized in the use of traditional methodologies. By employing propensity score matching (PSM) to reduce potential bias related to the
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School entry cutoff and the timing of births: evidence from Argentina Education Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Fernando Antonio Ignacio González, Juan Antonio Dip
The distance between the birth date and the school entry cutoff has been repeatedly used as an exogenous instrument to examine the impact of several educational programmes. In this work, we analyse...
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Valentine Jacobs, Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is higher for na...
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The effect of decreased general training on skills and dropout - Evidence from a vocational school reform in Hungary Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Zoltán Hermann, Dániel Horn
The paper studies a unique education reform that decreased the length of secondary-level vocational education from 4 to 3 years, reducing the time spent on general subjects while keeping the time s...
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Revisiting the causal effect of education on political participation and interest Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Nadja Bömmel, Guido Heineck
ABSTRACT Many studies suggest a relationship between education and political participation, but only some address causality. We add to this by re-examining the German case. For identification, we exploit an exogenous increase in compulsory schooling, and use data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). The data enable analyses that do not rely solely on the conversion of school-leaving qualifications
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Public versus private business school deans’ salary levels and structure in the United States Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-11-03 James Monks
Despite increased scrutiny of administrators’ salaries in higher education, little is known about the determinants of executive-level compensation at universities. This study examines the individua...
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Grade expectations: how well can past performance predict future grades? Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Gill Wyness, Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders, Catherine Dilnot
ABSTRACT Students in the UK apply to university with teacher-predicted examination grades, rather than actual results. These predictions have been shown to be inaccurate, and to favour certain groups, leading to concerns about teacher bias. We ask whether it is possible to improve on the accuracy of teachers’ predictions by predicting pupil achievement using prior attainment data and machine learning
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Do teachers’ college majors affect students’ academic achievement in the sciences? A cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Atsushi Inoue, Ryuichi Tanaka
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how teachers’ major fields in college affect students’ achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e. physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students’ data from the TIMSS and controlling for student-teacher fixed effects, we find that teachers improve students’ achievement in subfields of natural
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The impact of an alternation plan between face-to-face and remote education on academic achievement Education Economics Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, Jorge Enrique Ramos-Forero, Jorge Leonardo Rodríguez Arenas, Héctor M. Zárate-Solano
ABSTRACT This paper describes some indicators of the Colombian educational system considering the effect of the pandemic and assesses the causal effect of an alternation plan between face-to-face and remote education, conducted in 2020, on the results of an achievement test. Indicators reveal that the pandemic caused a greater demand for education services in public schools, increased dropout, and