Search Results - subject:"Student Attendance"

Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function

Tran, Long; Gershenson, Seth - 2018

Student attendance is both a critical input and intermediate output of the education production function. However, the … malleable classroom-level determinants of student attendance are poorly understood. We estimate the causal effect of class size … and observable teacher qualifications on student attendance rates by leveraging the random classroom assignments made by …

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Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Gershenson, Seth; McBean, Jessica Rae; Tran, Long - 2018

Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those average effects vary by student, school, and absence type. This paper enhances our understanding...

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Experimental estimates of the student attendance production function

Tran, Long; Gershenson, Seth - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946210

Quantile regression estimates of the effect of student absences of academic achievement

Gershenson, Seth; McBean, Jessica Rae; Tran, Long - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946220

Understanding student attendance in Business Schools: an exploratory study

Mearman, Andrew; Webber, Don; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Rahman, … - Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, … - 2012

A considerable literature indicates that class attendance is an important determinant of academic performance but the narrative on what influences students decisions to attend class is scant. This article examines why students choose not to attend class through the use of a survey distributed to...

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Guyana; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report 2005

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Despite the continued vulnerability of the economy to exogenous shocks, the inadequacy of infrastructure, and the weakness of existing institutional capacity, there has been considerable progress in actions and reforms initiated by the government within the framework of the poverty reduction...

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Bangladesh; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This paper focuses on the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction for Bangladesh. The paper discusses that accelerating growth and bringing a pro-poor orientation in the growth process would be achieved through emphasizing four priority areas: accelerated growth in rural areas and...

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