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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...

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Education : optimal choice and efficient policy

Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2015 - This is a fully rev. and extended version

maximizing income. This paper offers an alternative and less restrictive approach based on utility maximization. Using this …

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Early detection of students at risk : predicting student dropouts using administrative student data and machine learning methods

Berens, Johannes; Schneider, Kerstin; Görtz, Simon; … - 2018

are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …

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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003

-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the German TIMSS middle-school sample. The estimates show that students … in federal states with central exit examinations clearly outperform students in other federal states, but that only part …

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Assessment drives learning : the effect of central exit exams on curricular knowledge and mathematical literacy

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Senkbeil, Martin; … - 2009

active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …

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Quiet please! : adverse effects of noise on child development

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016

Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme … children, we show that children who are exposed to intensive traffic noise significantly fall behind in terms of school …

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