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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far?
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest sized and statistically significant peer effects in test scores. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable...
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
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The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization : evidence from 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Economics letters 107 (2010) 2, pp. 224-228
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