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Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom : Evidence from Shortened School Years

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...

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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes

Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...

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The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School : Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data

Edmark, Karin; Persson, Lovisa - 2021

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a public school, affects students’ academic and short-term postsecondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on upper secondary applicants: 1) A value-added model...

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The Association of Opening K-12 Schools and Colleges with the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States : County-Level Panel Data Analysis

Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021

an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009

determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

Mengel, Friederike - 2019

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …

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Taxing Our Wealth

Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2021

This paper evaluates proposals for an annual wealth tax. While a dozen OECD countries levied wealth taxes in the recent past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a US wealth tax. Studies of these taxes sometimes, but...

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Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2021

Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes...

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Energy Expenditure in Egypt : Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach

Bélaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe - 2021

This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of...

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Harding, Matthew C. - 2018

the time series dimension of the panel is large. We present an application to the evaluation of Time-of-Use pricing using …

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