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Lost wages : the COVID-19 cost of school closures
Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020
education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …
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The effectiveness of teamwork for student academic outcomes : evidence from a field experiment
Banerjee, Ritwik; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Cassese, Daniele; … - 2024
An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among …
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On the road to integration? : immigrant's demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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Out-of-field teaching in mathematics at Year 10 in New South Wales : evidence from PISA 2015
Shah, Chandra; Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. - 2024
"Out-of-field" teaching in mathematics refers to teachers who teach the subject without mathematics-specific qualifications to do so. Out-of-field teaching has the potential to affect teachers' classroom instruction practices with consequences for student learning. This report describes the...
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by gender, race/ethnicity and combinations of race/ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119578
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Identity and learning : a study on the effect of student-teacher gender matching on learning outcomes
Bhattacharya, Sukanta; Dasgupta, Aparajita; Mandal, Kumarjit - 2020
returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389533
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170281
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225678
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Nudging eyeglass use among children : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Pham, Quynh Thien Thi; Tung Duc Phung - 2025
In this study, we examine whether a nudging intervention increases eyeglass use among primary and lower-secondary students in Vietnam through a randomized controlled trial. Students with refractive errors in 34 schools in one province were provided with free eyeglasses. Half of the schools were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015395671