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School responsiveness to quality rankings: An empirical analysis of secondary education in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a newspaper (Trouw), rather than public interventions. Our research design exploits the substantial...

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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform

Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005

estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect …

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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?

Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2006

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...

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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

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The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health

Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012

We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...

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Evaluating students' evaluations of professors

Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011

teachers can either engage in real teaching or in teaching-to-the-test, the former requiring higher students' effort than the … latter. Teaching-to-the-test guarantees high grades in the current course but does not improve future outcomes. Hence, if … capable of predicting our empirical finding that good teachers receive bad evaluations, especially when teaching …

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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion: a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector

Neumann, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - 2007

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...

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Ranking the schools: How quality information affects school choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

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